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With that last word, his voice dropped to a self-conscious whisper. Guilt overcame him, guilt for the alias he felt inclined to present his wife. He recalled his childhood days when women on beaches were prohibited from exposing full thighs and shoulders, a memory which rendered "Oh! Calcutta!" one realized fantasy after another. Kenneth Tynan, the producer of the show when it first opened on Broadway, could have asked or hoped for no more, except an audience of 1649 more 68-year-olds who found the show something more than an evening's humorless, innocent diversion...
...knew much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci (who was actually in favor of granting the theater a license to show "Calcutta") kept referring to the mystery show as a movie. Councilor Leonard Russell kept denouncing the "Combat Zone type of show" as one that would "threaten the lives of hundreds of children...
...this Wednesday's opening of "Oh! Calcutta!" at the Harvard Square Theater proved anything, it was that on-stage nudity--once capable of raising eyebrows at the very least--is now capable of raising yawns. But it still packs...
Wednesday night's crowd--a predominantly middle-aged aggregation of about 1650--came away feeling slightly gypped by "Calcutta's" sophomoric mix of dated, pop-schlock insights into sexual hangups, delivered by actors in varying stages of undress...
...council will now consider a resolution to establish a review board which will aid in the interpretation of the city's confusing obscenity laws in future cases. (A film version of "Oh! Calcutta!" was banned by the council during a run at the Orson Welles Theater several years...