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...mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says the best way to keep from being raped by a weed is carry a pepper shaker in your purse...
...interfere a little with the fun; they don't spoil it. Besides, most of the cast knows better than to take a musical's plot seriously, and they share the audience's amusement in discovering how easily gulled the Babelites are by slick talk. The gab is dispensed by a down-and-out swami (played by Mr. Morey's collaborator, Robert Paul), who wanders into Babel, promptly sells the Babelites the world, and, to dispose of a bag of cement, persuades them to build a tower commemorating their purchase. Mr. Paul's loquacity dazzles and overwhelms them; the only person...
Violins shimmer, kettledrums boom, and out of the phonograph throbs the prim soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was-yes, that's the one-the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman...
...Birds of Paradise, by Paul Scott. A down-and-out middle-aged man is ob sessed by the memory of a summer house full of beautiful stuffed birds: a symbol of the rich confusion of his childhood in India...
BRATLE: Last two days for Ashes and Diamonds, a sensitively-handled Polish movie about a resistance fighter at the end of World War II. Starting Monday, October 16, is Vittorio de Sica's newest masterpiece of acting-direction: General Della Rovere, the story of a down-and-out Italian pimp who finally sees the light. Somewhat overdrawn, it's still in the best tradition of Italian realism. Evenings...