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...easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall performances recapture the poignancy of the 19-year-old play that was Williams' first success...
...telephone stations, modeled after the internal exchange on a Navy ship. Combinations of 220 phone numbers will light up the pools, tennis courts, caves, fountains and trees; they will open and close doors, start up the waterfalls, greet a guest with a recorded message or serenade a caller with music to wait by. On a thickly wooded trail, the phone sounds with natural bird calls instead of the usual noisy ring...
SQUARE DANCES (MacGregor). Red River Valley, Solomon Levi, Oh Johnny, Turkey in the Straw, Red Wing and other classics with Fenton ("Jonesy") Jones as the caller. Jonesy's instructions are melodious and comparatively easy to follow, intended for initiates into these arcane rites, e.g., "Box the flea," and "Allemande left with a high tuck a shaw/Take a little bow with your mother...
...productive mill. A recent ad revealed that he has no secretary and answers his own phone, suggested that anyone with a complaint call his number direct (area code 516, CH 8-9150). Townsend has since heard from about 400 people, last week made a San Francisco reservation for one caller and authorized another to get on-the-spot credit without an Avis card or cash deposit...
...Hour Delay. Typifying the U.S. problem of slow police service, New York City has five boroughs with five separate police numbers that seem to endlessly confuse callers. The police department is now struggling to devise a system whereby a single "hot line" central number would automatically summon the cops in the caller's own borough-though even this would not eliminate delays caused by police operators who ask interminable questions before sending...