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President Ydigoras' administration is used to being roasted by opposition newsmen, but never has it had to take such heat from a girl. Six months ago, when she got a job on the capital's influential (circ. 15,000) afternoon daily La Hora, Irma Flaquer, 22, lost no time establishing herself as one of the government's sharpest critics. Writing to help support her two children by an early, unsuccessful marriage, the pretty young newshen in her column denounces governmental corruption, ridicules its foreign policies, champions women's rights, favors birth control, blames the Latins...
...lessen Irma's public effect. Information Chief Augusto Mulet Descamps tried both sneers and smears. He publicly branded her opinions "treasonable," and in official information bulletins, called her a vamp and a blackmailer. Mulet, 48, even tried to plant a story that Irma used her column to get even with him because he spurned her advances. When most Guatemalan newspapers refused to print that story, he wanted to run it as a paid ad, was again turned down...
...fortnight ago, as Irma was walking home from a radio station where she delivers a 15-minute daily news commentary, she was confronted by one Gloria Castillo, a brawny, 150-lb. political action worker, who bosses the strongly pro-Ydigoras market women's union. According to Irma, Gloria roared: "You newspaper people are a bunch of sons of bitches. The old man is fed up with you." Then she grabbed Irma (95 Ibs.) by the hair, kicked and punched her senseless. When Irma regained consciousness, she had the makings of a shiner, sundry cuts and bruises, and a large...
...Irma La Douce is small scale and French, piquant and jaunty-a musical in which everything turns on sex and money and promptly turns into sentiment and make-believe. A prostitute in a dregsy quarter of Paris, Irma gives her love and earnings to a virtuous young law student named Nestor. Growing jealous of her clients, Nestor-using earnings of his own, and a false beard and spectacles-becomes Irma's one-man provider, "M. Oscar." Irma thereupon falls in love with Oscar; Nestor "kills" him, is sent to Devil's Island, and escapes...
...putting its bad apples at the top of the barrel and its milk of human kindness inside Pernod bottles, Irma La Douce endows its harmless story with a nice tingle of iniquity, even a certain mixture of sweetness and bite. Now and then the gags and goings-on go sour, or the story droops: Nestor-Oscar, for example, outwears its welcome. But under Peter Brook's brilliant direction, most of Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite...