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When the sermon is over, as the 700-voice choir softly hums an "invitation" hymn (Almost Persuaded) to wavering sinners, Billy's voice speaks out again, this time in a coaxing, soothing register: "Come on . . . We're waitin' on you. Don't you want to be...
Carlotta, says one of her friends, is possessed by "the Zeitgeist." For her, everything runs by fad: in the '30s she marched in Union Square, now she cultivates her ego. Still beautiful in middle age, her mind as sleek as her skin, shrewd in business, burning with vanity, oozing...
For General Douglas MacArthur & family it was a week of catching up on peacetime fun. In his new civilian uniform (double-breasted, grey flannel suit, bow tie and grey felt hat), he arrived at Yankee Stadium to see the Yankee-Browns game, was asked by the announcer to say a...
The screen adaptation has one addition--an amusing Washington travelogue. For the most part the dialogue changes are small, but anyone who knows the play well will find them interesting. For instance, the corrupt Senator of the Broadway version has become a corrupt Congressman. Paul Verrall used to work for...
To get this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida...