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THEATER CRITICS HAVE found it rewarding recently to bemoan the lack of innovative, intriguing, entertaining, or even humorous dramatic productions. Unfortunately, Dunster House's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Sawdoes nothing to challenge this prevalent conception of the state of contemporary theater...
...promising satirical subject in the psychiatric setting of What the Butler Saw is the question of who is sane and who is insane. Yet even this is rarely treated above the superficial level. To be sure, the two psychiatrists do compulsively attempt to classify each character as mad, but their attempts are so continuous and so blatant that the humor emerges as tired while the satire is so overdone that it becomes irrelevant...
...WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, by Joe Orton. "Zany sex farce in a psychiatrist clinic where doctors and patients lost their sanity and clothes." I didn't know that CRP had gotten around to those, but I guess nothing is sacred any more. Tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and next weekend, 8:30 p.m. at Dunster House...
...summers, the Post entourage moved to Camp Topridge, a mountain-top hideaway in upstate New York. There a visitor could rough it while living in a guesthouse staffed by a butler and maid. A crew of woodsmen-guides was on hand to help explore the outdoors, while the less energetic could get a glimpse of the St. Lawrence Seaway from Mrs. Post's four-engine plane...
...Butler seemed a likely candidate - twice a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an authentic soldiers' hero. But he reported the plot in detail to the House Un-American Activities Committee, then chaired by Massachusetts' John McCormack, later Speaker of the House. At the hearings, the gobe tweens denied everything, and the com mittee was simply afraid to call titans of finance as witnesses...