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...considerable outrage because of a scene in which a group of men stone a baby to death in its pram. The Lord Chamberlain, whose authority to censor plays has since been abolished, banned further showings. The Edward Bond play is now making its first New York appearance at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn. While the baby-killing episode is still potently emetic, playgoers have become inured to so many acts of gratuitous violence, on and offstage, that the scene now seems more prophetic than scandalous...
Much of this must be intuited, for the Chelsea Theater production is murky. Hampered by a pedestrian cast, Alan Schneider provides a dilatory directorial hand. He has not propelled the action in a proper tempo, and in order to let the lines sink in, he has let the play sink, but Saved almost saves itself. ∙T. E. Kalem
...London and on the Continent, the linguistic lag is sorely evident: phrases already discarded Stateside are just coming into common usage across the pond. Some Londoners estimate that it takes two years for a lively American coinage to make it as far as Chelsea. Esperantists, however, are making a valiant effort to cope more quickly. At their world convention in Vienna last week, some of the younger hotheads were talking about gruva young ladies with whom they hoped to scenumi (make the scene) in the evening...
After she finished Saga, Susan found her Frenchman. He turned out to be Pierre Granier-Deferre, who directed her first nude scene (with Charles Aznavour) in Paris in August and then married her. She now shuttles between a couple of cottages in Chelsea and an apartment in suburban Paris. France is for weekends and vacation, because it is about the only civilized country in the world where Susan has any privacy -Saga has not played there...
Once it was Greenwich Village. Then it was Chelsea, Coenties Slip and the Bowery. Now the place to be, if you are a young New York artist with nowhere to go but up, is the city's newest bohemia: a dingy, littered area of 19th century factory buildings called SoHo (because it is south of Houston Street). Before the '60s, few outsiders braved SoHo's trash and traffic except architecture buffs, who admired the area's Italianate cast-iron facades. But for some 2,000 to 3,000 artists today, the neighborhood has become a last...