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...MAMAS AND THE PAPAS (Dunhill). The hottest new group of the past year consists of Contralto Cass Elliot, Tenor Denny Doherty, Soprano Michelle Phillips and her husband John Phillips, baritone and songwriter. Like their first album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, this one has relatively sophisticated sliding harmonies and an adjustable beat that appeals not only to kids but also to other mamas and papas. The group even works over that song of middle age, My Heart Stood Still...
...Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel, whispers along for three feeble acts, but it has no secret to tell. It whispers of dead young brides and deaf old crones, of dreams, fantasies and betrayals, of the brief pleasure and passing pain some men give some women, and of how the life of the old drowns in memory. The bitter beauty of human existence that irradiated Playwright Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! last season nowhere shines in this play...
...heroine, Cass McGuire (Ruth Gordon), has spent a lifetime in America and gone back to Ireland-to a rest home, cruelly enough. The occupants are in their anecdotage, but none more so than Cass. With her sandpiper walk and her sandpaper voice, Ruth Gordon jigs and jaws through meandering monologues evenly divided between past loves and barroom drolleries...
...seen either in Shaw's You Never Can Tell, Sheridan's The Rivals, or both. Additional foreign works include the 1966 London critics' prize-winning The Killing of Sister George, the tale of a disturbed soap-opera star with an unsavory private life; The Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel (who wrote Philadelphia, Here I Come!), about a Bowery barmaid's return to her native Ireland; and Help Stamp Out Marriage!, by Billy Liar Authors Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall...
Although Dr. Robert F. McCleery, director of FDA's Medical Advertising division, recommended that all claims based on Cass research be removed from labels--including the drug's chief selling point: "eight-hour pain relief"--this was not done, according to Fountain. Instead, the company was told to simply delete Cass's name from its claims. As a result, Fountain said, "promotional labeling and advertising continued to contain claims based on Cass work...