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...acres of bikini-clad flesh, Riviera tourists paid boatmen $10 a head to ride from Monte Carlo to nearby Cap-d'Ail. The lure: a possible chance of spying vacationing Sir Winston Churchill propped up on the shore in shorts, wide-brimmed straw hat, open-necked shirt and cigar...
...Glumly Jack selects a Cuban cigar from his humidor. He is afraid to smoke cigars in public lest he look like a "wise guy." Pipes too have been forced into the privacy of his home since Marlboro cigarettes became one of the show's sponsors. Wandering aimlessly once more, like a man in search of work, Jack walks into the living room and picks up a newspaper. "What the hell can I say about the new women's hemlines?" he asks sadly. "I've already advised them to have their knees lowered...
...inscrutable Chinese lined up at post office windows on Clay Street-"China Station"-there started an inscrutable run on 3? stamps that would, on fateful Aug. 1, become as rare as the 5? phone call, the 10? hamburger, the 50? haircut and, for that matter, the fine 5? cigar...
...that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque, in his film debut) lives in terror of the SS; a Jewish friend hides out miserably in a bombed-out cathedral; a Gestapo officer hands him a cigar box containing the ashes of his bride's father. Worst of all, the Allied air forces refuse to let bygones be bygones, systematically pound his pretty city to tatters...
...supporting characters in the play are pretty much two-dimensional types, but the members of the cast round them out as much as possible. Betty Bartley is the whiny-voiced dumb blonde who dresses flamboyantly and is glad to give herself to a portly, cigar-smoking gentleman of means (Jonathan Morris); she has the funniest lines in the show, and some of them are really a howl...