Query: Novels published by Hutchinson about film director and producers
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Laughing Gas (novel)
Evidence from documents: Laughing Gas (novel): Novels published by Hutchinson: The story was included in ''The Hollywood Omnibus'', a collection of Wodehouse stories published in May 1985 by Hutchinson, London.
*F. Anstey's novel ''Vice Versa'' (1882)
about film director and producers: '''''Laughing Gas''''' is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Written in first person narrative, the story is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is, compared to, say, Budd Schulberg's ''What Makes Sammy Run?'' (1941), a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars. Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical.