This Evening Reads will feature three humorous stories to make you forget about any holiday drama.

We start with “How to Win a Mink,” by Anita Loos, who is famous for commenting on women’s liberation: “They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.” A veteran of Hollywood screenwriting, Loos is best known today for her wickedly funny novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Polly will then move on to a sequel from a previous reading called A Coarse Actor Prepares by Michael Green. Green updates his description of a coarse actor to include: “one who can remember their lines but not the order in which they come; one whose eyebrows are attached to their feet (so every facial expression involves the whole body as well; one who limps on both legs simultaneously; and one who knows everybody else’s lines better than their own.”

Finally, Fur is a humorous short story by the British author Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym of Saki. In the story, a young woman named Suzanne wants to encourage a wealthy relative to buy her an expensive present for her birthday. Her friend Eleanor comes up with a clever plan to help her steer him towards a silver-fox stole but when Suzanne refuses Eleanor's request for a favor in return, the plan takes an unexpected turn.