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...NATALIA GINZBURG's The Advertisement is a play about what can happen to people who answer Real Paper classifieds. A young student in Rome named Elena responds to an ad offering free room and board in return for companionship. As a result, she is forced to listen to the long neurotic monologues of her host, Teresa; falls in love with Teresa's estranged husband, Lorenzo; and finally gets shot to death...
...life, sloppily, like soup overflowing a saucer--her nightmares, unhappy childhood, financial problems, and unrequited love for her husband. "Is all this boring you?" she asks Elena (Anne Singer)--a risky suggestion for an author to make to an audience when presenting this kind of familiar material. But Ginzburg carries it off, and instead of sounding like your roommate's version of hell at Harvard, the first act is hypnotic and convincing...
...once the static, dreamy atmosphere of the first act is left behind. The rest of the play ignores the social and sexual issues raised by the plot--marriage between the rich Lorenzo and the poor Teresa--and it just doesn't have the magic to make up for it. Ginzburg's people, in the end, are all psychology and no character...
...Advertisement is by Natalie Ginzburg, who I'm told is a German-born writer who lives in Italy and writes in Italian. It will be done in English, however, and somebody volunteered to review it, so it must have admirers. At the Loeb Ex, Thursday-Saturday, February...
...finally won a $150 million settlement) that Second Lieut. Inouye lost his right arm in Army combat in Europe. Among Wilson's other famous cases: a 1970 victory in the Supreme Court upholding Barry Goldwater's libel judgment of $75,000 against Eros and Fact Publisher Ralph Ginzburg; and the initial defeat of President Truman's 1952 seizure of steel companies. In the steel case, curiously, Wilson argued for a limited constitutional interpretation of presidential power, a position he now attacks on behalf of Haldeman and Ehrlichman...