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...sexist grounds, for membership on the ruling seven-member Federal Council, parliament approved a woman nonlegislator with the same background (a French-speaking socialist) and roughly similar political views (a reduced role for the military, pro-E.C.). The principal difference between the rejected Christiane Brunner and winner Ruth Dreifuss, says Dreifuss, is that "I reassure people because I look a little plain...
...these gentle frauds are in town this week. The cheaper is Arthur Dreifuss's The Young Runaways, produced by Sam Katzman, a second-rate Albert Zugsmith whose films are usually acted by racing cars. Inadvertantly, Runaways does more toward creating a semi-mythic subculture than Alice B. Toklas, in its strict adherence to the plot premise: everybody in The Young Runaways has runaways on their mind. It is as if Chicago, the film's location, were a vast playground given over to hide-and-seek...
...product-mongers appears to be that innocence--at least sexual innocence--no longer exists anywhere, certainly not in the country. Hollywood is probably right: God knows they helped make it that way, and God know there's no money to be made in innocence. The three runaways in Dreifuss's film aren't frustrated youths seeking knowledge and fulfillment, but jaded refugees from the hang-ups of social-realist films of the fifties, desperate to jump into the problems of the sixties. Similarly, the hashish-fudge that liberates Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) in Alice B. Toklas simply moves...
Behan is frankly polemical, and Arthur Dreifuss, who both wrote and directed the picture, has done nothing to mitigate the playwright's opinions. On the other hand, Behan brings to his special pleading a special experience and a special authority. He has spent nearly six of his 40 years in jail. One feels that his convictions have been fortified by convictions...
Baby Pompadour (by Benjamin Graham; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). A program note to Baby Pompadour states: "Benjamin Graham, the author of the play, is a well-known figure in the financial world, and identified with the affairs of many impor tant corporations. He is also the senior author of an authoritative work in 'Security Analysis,' a member of the faculty of Columbia University, and active in the sphere of economics. Playwriting is his hobby and Baby Pompadour is his first...