the snake has all the lines Author:Jean Kerr The Snake Has All The Lines is Mrs. Kerr's answer to the cries of "more! more!" which greeted her enormously successful Please Don't Eat the Daisies. When Jean Kerr settles down to explain about the ordeal of hotel living during out-of-town tryouts (the room service was so bad that a playwright sent a funeral wreath to the kitchen with a note: ... more » "in memory of those who have passed away in the last 24 hours"). . . or when she parodies a well-known magazine's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" department in a hilarious ribbing of Lolita, it is cause for dancing in the streets. The titile of this book comes for a remark made by her son one he returned home from school one day to announce in dispirited tones that he had been cast as Adam in the school lay about Adam and Eve. "That's wonderful, you have the lead" Jean said. "Yeah, " he answered glumly, " but the snake has all the lines.« less