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...Riding Skirt. Mary Costa, another blonde who earns $52,000 a year peddling cars for Chrysler on Climax and Shower of Stars, agrees that a girl spieler should be "good-looking but not too flashy to detract from the product. I try to dress elegantly but simply." Mary's feminine viewers notice her enough to wonder how she can get so gracefully into and out of today's cars. "They write asking why my skirt never rides up. It's a simple matter of placing more weight on the calves than on the thighs, as women usually...
...play's low comedy is due mainly to the freshness of Roger Moldovan, Thomas Teal, and Judith Gilmartin, as Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Maria, the wench, respectively. Moldovan's Cyrano de Bergerac nose is unnecessary to show that he is a sot, but this does not detract from his relaxed, happily debauched portrayal. Teal's Augecheek borders on an elongated Jerry Lewis, and is very funny, dithering, and lovable. Miss Gilmartin, beguiling and spirited, ably completes their juvenile comradery...
...play's weakening link. A chorus of various boy and girl Indians intone explanation and prediction of future action, in case anyone in the audience hadn't guessed for himself. Costumes and lighting as usual are modest because of the players' skimpy budget, but they in no way detract from a generally very entertaining show...
...which the League should adopt. The participation of a few scattered football players in a game during Christmas vacation will not appreciably increase emphasis on the sport in the Ivy institutions. And since these particular games require the player's time only during vacations, they would not detract from class time...
Thomson, a long-time opponent of the new Forum group, last night admitted he had sent the letter but denied that his intention was "to detract in any way from the Political Forum." He added that the letter's purpose was to warn Bricker that "the Senator's appearance under the auspices of the clubs which invited him would be stacked greatly against his amendment...