Perelman Tonight: Breaking news! -- Part 1 of "Mama Don't Want No Rice" (Chapter 4 of "The Swiss Family Perelman")

A quartet of foreign devils
manifestly aching to be plundered

"Certain obscure indications tended to establish them as an American family. In typically Yankee matriarchal style, the party was headed by a well-preserved woman of thirty-odd, her features distorted by an insensate craving for bargains and an iron resolve to paper the Thieves' Market with her husband's money."

-- from tonight's installment of "Mama Don't Want No Rice"

by Ken

In last night's installment, the Siam-bound Perelman clan descended on Hong Kong, which is where we rejoin them tonight, with our narrator trotting at his wife's heels,"as obedient as a coach-dog, . . . bearing in his arms the gallimaufry of opium lamps, snuff-bottles, door-knockers, sandalwood fans, and ceremonial scrolls she had bartered for his heart's blood."

In just a moment, however, an unintentional revelation will shake the family expedition to its very fiber.


WHAT THUNDERBOLT LIES IN WAIT FOR
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THE SWISS FAMILY PERELMAN: OUR STORY SO FAR

Chapter 1, "Rancors Aweigh"
Part 1 -- Launching yet another journey
Part 2 -- San Francisco-bound
Chapter 2, "Low Bridge -- Everybody Down"
Part 1 -- The journey begins!
Part 2 -- Hooray for Hollywood!
Part 3 -- "Move over, Asia"
Chapter 3, "The Wild Blue Yonder"
Part 1 -- "Aboard the President Cleveland"
Part 2 -- Putting on the feedbag
Part 3 -- Hawaii to Hong Kong

THURBER TONIGHT (including WOODY ALLEN, ROBERT BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, S. J. PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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