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Denni Allen makes a delightful Mephistopheles, somewhat coy and aloof, domineering, and beautifully expansive in his moment, ever tempting Faustus to greater sin. He suffers, however, from a fault which seemed to impede nearly everyone in the cast: an inability to lend sufficient grandeur to his speech. However regal his actions, his voice almost always gives him away...
Peter Loves Mary (NBC) is meant to suggest that folks in show biz are just as cute, lovable and revolting as anybody else. The expertly tibbled story line about a man-and-wife comedy team has the requisite cynical children, the coy, sex-crazed housekeeper, and the jolly Broadway agent, naturally called Happy. In last week's first installment, Peter Lind Hayes, as the TV comic who cracked up over the air because his family insists on living in the strange, frightening suburbs, and Mary Healy as his wife, whose gay indifference to his suffering singled...
...Papa" Hemingway. Vanderford plays his part to the hilt, occasionally signs Hemingway's name for autograph seekers (growls Papa: "I don't care if he signs my name as long as he doesn't sign checks"), and passes out cards bearing his picture, true name and coy inscriptions, reading in Spanish, "Although two drops of water look alike, they are different," and in English, "Everyone in this ever-loving world looks a little like everyone else." Vanderford, who is generally called "the phony Hemingway," retired as an oil-company executive last year, has been in Spain ever...
...they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...
...every young woman walk the streets with the confidence that every young man she meets will be as a brother to her." An indignant college professor joined in. "Individually as well as in groups," he complained, his students "discuss the proportions of maidens, their adipose tissues and their coy looks." And the coeds? "Bearing and dress publicly shout at you: 'Come and look at me.' " 50 Screams. Some of the assembled savants were inclined to blame the new looseness on the movies ("That unmitigated evil") and cigarette smoking: "It is a biological fact that habitual smoking stimulates...