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...flea-he's much too busy squashing people. But the picture belongs to Actress Page, who starred with Newman in the Broadway play. She swirls to the girls' room as if to a coronation, she cuddles her oxygen mask as a normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment later with hard-nosed efficiency to collect what she has paid for. She is a mascaraed monument to the era of the superstar, a veritable muse of publicity...
...romantic leads are just as good. Liz Fillo (Babe) and Jack Bates (Sid) have charming voices (yeah, I'm running out of adjectives): Miss Fillo, in "There Once Was A Man" is a lover for all times, and Mr. Bates can make even a doughnut song like "New Town" sound as if it were worth listening...
...stage at once--between the songs there are, after all, an awful lot of crummy lines (the cue for "Small Talk" is that oh-so-memorable line "What's the matter, lover?"). And having come to this, I can now fling praise at Miss Cohen and at Thom Babe, the director. The big production numbers are awesome. Mr. Babe's blocking and Miss Cohen's choreography are smoothly professional, overwhelmingly competent. Their "7 1/2" has the chorus brandishing a forest of picket signs; it effectively fills every square inch of the stage, and it's snappy, loud, and boffo...
...friends in the cast--and they are now legion--tell me there aren't many seats left for tonight's performance of Die Pajamaspiele. So, if you're up to it, fight your way to a couple of tickets. As Babe says, "It's so good I can't believe...
Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 of Kirkland House won the $75 first prize in an Adams House Drama Society contest for his play The Better Angel. George D. Kelly '63 of Eliot House took second prize ($50) for a movie script, The Ape's Tragedy...