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After sitting up nights wondering how to entrap the clean young lieutenants, ensings, midshipmen, V-12ers and G.I.s running around Cambridge unleashed, Radcliffe girls have finally found the proper snare. The signs all over the Yard saying DAPAROF, they have confessed, is just a cheap publicity gag. "Dance and Play at Radcliffe on Friday," is their new cry. Just to be cute and mysterious they condense it to DAPAROF. Something called the Radcliffe Service Organization ("We are not a USO") is the sponsor...
...long as matters remain witty, "Foolish Notion" is a remarkably edifying Play Javishly spiced with fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening...
Making the rounds of the dark, thunderous subway tunnels under Manhattan's Time Square one afternoon last week, a trackwalker was startled by the sight of a small boy lashed by wire to a steel stanchion. His hands and feet were bound, his mouth was stuffed with a gag, and his right shoe and stocking were off. He was moaning and tossing his tousled blond head...
They boarded a subway, Ronald said, and got off at Times Square, where the man told him the "stuff" was down along the tracks below the platform. "Well, we climbed down, and when he got me down a little ways, he suddenly turned on me and shoved a gag in my mouth and tied me up with wire. And he took one of my shoes off so I couldn't run so well if I got away, I guess...
...here is where you folks listening come in on the gag," he confided. "Every one of you listening also mail a book to Mr. Wickel. . . . When all the books have arrived, Army trucks will cart them away to the Victory Book Campaign headquarters. . . . Mr. Wickel will be searching for Page 13s until the cows come home. ... I can just see his face...