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When it comes to past political figures, however, the papers are less sensitive. "Speaking of John Wilkes Booth, history may have done him wrong," Tom Ethridge wrote recently. "Mrs. Lincoln had accused Honest Abe of flirting with a cute actress in the play he was watching. There was an argument. Mary Lincoln drew a .44 derringer from her handbag and fired the fatal shot. John Wilkes Booth happened to pass the presidential box at that moment. Being a true Southern gentleman, he gallantly took the rap for the first lady...
Actually, it's all rather engaging for a while, because Reagan's ghostwrites in a sassy, colloquial style that cries, "Look at me." But it's overdone, and soon becomes too cute and too flippant. Even in serious moments, such as the single paragraph summary of his divorce from actress Jane Wyman. Reagan parodies his suffering "if you hit us we bruise, if you cut us (forgive me Shakespeare) we bleed...
...very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...
Though Cat is often too cute for words, it is not too cute for music. A soundtrack orchestra plays so puckishly that seasoned Disney fans are apt to expect an interlude of mating tarantulas. Instead Uncle Walt opts for a conventional fur-flying climax, and by fadeout time the heroic Siamese has somehow sired a litter of adorable kittens. Such bounties adequately fill a kid's stocking, but parents not previously afflicted with cat allergy may well feel the first faint sniffle...
Nearer to Second. The May Co. was once a place to pick up a cheap blouse or a cute salesgirl; Comedian Jack Ben ny, in a famous routine, maintained that he found Wife Mary Livingstone behind a May lingerie counter. Inexpensive clothes are still available at May, but nowadays they have some style; May buyers in New York and Paris quickly pass on the latest fashion news. Aware of its customers' growing affluence, May now stocks more expensive soft goods, has broadened its range to include such luxuries as gourmet foods, costly pool tables and antique furniture...