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Cortés spent the next two years virtually walled up in his father's house-hidden in a hollow space of 3 ft. by 6 ft., originally intended as a cupboard. "Sometimes I would come out at night," he says, "but the house was often searched in those days." Then, in 1941, the landlord told the family that they must leave the house and find another. They managed to find one with a conveniently similar wall cupboard elsewhere in the town, and Cortés made the move by night, dressed in women's clothes, his head...
Baroque Speeches. The ceremonies onstage were scarcely more delicate. Gower Champion's miscued staging was reminiscent of The Ed Sullivan Show on an off night. The dancing was strictly St. Vitus, the hollow banter almost made one hunger for the elaborate thanks of yesteryear...
...Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding that looks as if Beelzebub had personally catered the affair. Too many of the camera's juxtapositions are vulgar or obvious or both: the hollow of a navel introduces a swimming pool, an embracing couple becomes a side of roast beef, the jock is shown carefully laundering his athletic supporter...
...Peerce seems to have trouble distinguishing between comedy and caricature. But the two directors also share an asset: the debut of a promising ingénue. Wellesley-educated Ali MacGraw is one of the few models who have successfully managed to switch from magazines to movies without being a hollow-cheeked embarrassment-but at a price. At 30, she has made a late start in the business. Her subdued, ivy-league beauty has, however, retained its freshness. And her performance, which swings with intricate calibration from poignance to petulance, happily compensates for a lot of lost time...
Inevitably a virgin is seduced (twice in fact it's so funny) and a teetotalling bar-smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same...