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Into the middle-middle-class Fisher family, bickering affectionately in a comfortable old house in North Philadelphia, comes the Show-Off, one Aubrey Piper, a $32.50-a-week clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight office. A back-slapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming...
Clayton Corzatte plays Aubrey with a bravura that grates audience sensibilities in the beginning but still manages to modulate into something like sympathy by the end. But the play belongs to Mrs. Fisher-the best role Helen Hayes has found since she was Queen Victoria 29 years...
After 43 years, The Show-Off is still a surprisingly good play, albeit a psychologically dated one; today's audience must suspend its natural inclination to see Aubrey Piper as a sick man rather than merely an irritating dreamer. But Miss Hayes bounces things along with such verve and charm that Dr. Freud is not likely to be missed...
...Aubrey Wilson will speak on "The Archaeology of Modern Technology" at 4:30 p.m. today in Emerson...
...Allow me to correct the inaccurate and rather damaging statement in your review of Under the Hill by Aubrey Beardsley and myself [Aug. 11], that the book contains "four-letter words." None of the half-dozen well-worn crudities implied by this expression can be found anywhere in the text. All our own words have at least seven letters...