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...Loveit, rustles about giving a brilliant performance as a woman wronged. Miss Cole does justice, with Mr. Cutler, to one of Etherege's most winning scenes. More than anyone else, she has mastered innuendo, and can use it to make points. Mr. Seltzer is charming as a gruff, fanny-slapping squire, and Mr. Kozol, though his accent fluctuates, makes us pay attention to most of his idle gossip. These people have made their characters personalities...
Those who go too far are generally female, though Eric House's foppish Tattle who always deals with women "who shall remain nameless" and Terrence Currier's shoutingly gruff sailor Ben "who wants a little polishing" have their share of slapstick hysterics. A few players like Dixie Dewitt's drunken Nurse are too raucous-voiced all along, but the general problem is not knowing when to stop. Miss Clayburgh and Mr. House's seduction scene has some deftly staged running around but the audience tires around the half-mile mark...
...Street tenement. Sadie Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
...Mafia. Like other U.S. cities, Los Angeles has its crime problem. Under gruff longtime Chief Bill Parker, still un-replaced since his death in July, the city's 5,181-man force won a justifiable reputation as a highly efficient, untouchable operation that kept Los Angeles tree of Mafia-style crime. Still, Los Angeles' proximity to Mexico helps give it the biggest narcotics problem after New York, and its plethora of autos produces the highest incidence of auto theft and auto stripping of any U.S. city. It is a tribute to the efficiency of the police, whose numbers...
...Following your guide, I called FRANKLIN 4-2181, Little Rock. A gruff voice answered in response to my request for "Rocket": "You have wrong number." Maybe the ice has melted...