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...SHOWOFF. The marrying process is always a mystery, but Playwright George Kelly's tightly corseted family cannot begin to understand how the youngest daughter could possibly pick a man whose every guffaw grates on the nerves and whose every word offends the sensibilities. Helen Hayes leads the APA in a gentle revival of the 1924 comedy...
...sleek, sexy career girl in the ads for Cosmopolitan magazine, which these days is aimed at readers who are just the opposite: single women, 18 to 34, who are not knockouts, who are unsure of themselves, who are searching for a man. It is a recipe concocted by Editor Helen Gurley Brown, 45, author of the bestselling Sex and the Single Girl, and it has turned a humdrum publication of women's features into a sort of female Playboy. Since the winsome Mrs. Brown took over three years ago, circulation has increased 16%, to more than...
...less affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown...
...Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell Wright. It is salutary to note that the first English translation of Proust's Swanris Way did not make the scene...
...Inaugural Evening at Ford's Theater." The gala reopening of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., which has not seen a performance since April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot there during a presentation of Our American Cousin. The invited audience will see Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Julie Harris, Odetta, Andy Williams, Harry Belafonte and others in performances keyed to Lincoln's love of the theater and the music...