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...Capp and Gown...
...Rock. Can our Rozzie take it? Her first appearance with Sullivan was only her fifth in front of an audience, and it showed. She had whittled off 60 Ibs., but she wore a matronly gown and clenched her hands nervously. She was hardly more relaxed a week later in the nightclub atmosphere of San Francisco's hungry i. But there is that Streisand voice, strong and crystalline, making up in depth and force what it lacks in experience and subtlety...
...Channing wig, he--or, as you begin to accept the play's terms, she--is an irrepressible performer, a one-man version of a Hasty Pudding show. The jokes are bad in a great, extravagant way. (One prisoner, dressed as Portia for a Christmas pageant, lamely explains away the gown he is wearing with, "It's from The Merchant of Venice." Queenie's answer: "Well, take it back then." All right, so you had to have been there.) The point is, if you're expecting merely refined sarcasm, this ain't The Boys in the Band. As this play leeringly...
Even more basic was the brilliant silver minidress worn by Mrs. Edward Kennedy, one of the very few women not attired in a long gown. The President, perhaps looking ahead to 1972, never took his eyes from the pretty face of his potential rival's wife as he greeted her and exchanged pleasantries in the receiving line. But Mrs. Nixon, for one long instant, could not suppress a stare at those six lissome inches between Joan's hemline and knee...
LOOKING like a cross between a stern schoolmarm and an impish witch, the short (5 ft. 2 in.), broad-beamed woman in a floor-length, toga-like gown marched onto the stage at the American Museum of Natural History last week, clutching her ever-present forked walking stick. Then, peering at the overflow audience of nearly 1,500, Margaret Mead, who at 67 is something more than an anthropologist and something less than a national oracle, undertook one of her favorite tasks. She told her audience what is afoot in the world and some good ways to improve...