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Alonso's central idea is very interesting. His Don Juan is neither Mozart's energetic young lover proud enough to defy God, nor Shaw's immortal philosopher. Instead, he is an ageing man who, even though as the son of an angel he possesses the power to charm all woman, has never found a single woman he could love. The play shows his last attempt to find love, and its pattern is the tragedy of hope in the face of certain defeat...
...Fair Lady (from Shaw's Pygmalion), a holdover from last season that is still blooming after some 400 performances, pouring back profits to CBS, its sole angel ($401,000), which got exclusive television rights. Except for stray seats, My Fair Lady is dated up until September. Other hits from past seasons that are still flourishing are Frank Loesser's operatic The Most Happy Fella, and Damn Yankees, a rollicking tale of sex, baseball and the devil...
...Marriage between cousins is perfectly legal," says the clergyman when the imposture is discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
...Republicans, hove into a California court and met an old acquaintance, Restaurateuse Sally Stanford (real name: Mabel Janice Busby), now retired from a crimson career as one of San Francisco's red-hot madams (her once-elegant Pine Street hostelry is now a booze dispensary called the Fallen Angel). At the Valhalla, Sally's fancy restaurant in Sausalito, Bridges was caught in the men's room last September by two seamen, both unfriendly members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened...
...unless they can be assured of a $100,000 gross, which the Brattle can never guarantee. The third problem, nitrate vs. safety film, is one which affects some of the older American pictures, lke W. C. Fields movies, as well as a great many foreign films, like "The Blue Angel." According to Massachusetts law, only "safety" film, which does not burn, may be played in commercial theatres, and most of the old movies are on nitrate stock, with few producers who are willing to meet the cost of transferring them to safety stock...