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archy and mehitabel is a back-alley children's opera after don marquis's stories of a journalistic cockroach and an evil-minded cat. saturdays and sundays and next wednesday at 2:30, theater two, 196 broadway...
archy and mehitabel, as you may recall, was the sad story of a cockroach who lived in a newspaper office and crawled out at night to type his life story and the multifarious songs of mehitabel the cat ("wott'hell archy wott'hell there's life in the old girl yet" being in my recollection her favorite) on the newspaper's typewriter but being a cockroach was too weak to press down the shift key. no capitals, that meant. theater two is putting on a "back-alley opera for children which starred carol channing off-broadway," set in shinbone alley...
Undergraduates are well-advised to keep either a sturdy left shoe or a can of Raid handy to combat the persistent cockroach plague...
Jeffrey F. Sagansky '74, a Lowell House resident, explained how he and his roommates handle the problem. "When we see a cockroach we spray it and the area around it with aerosol," he said. "That stops it from moving; then we just take a match to the whole thing...
...critic of the New York Post, for instance, twice broke in to announce that he had just seen a cockroach marching across the floor.) In fairness to the TV writers, it has to be remembered that to Dietrich a stupid question is one that touches on 1) her age, 2) her beauty secrets, 3) her personal life, or 4) just about anything else a reporter might be interested in, including her daughter, the wife of an American toy manufacturer living in London, and her four grandsons...