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Inside the aged brick walls and wrought iron gates enclosing the buildings and grounds, these days seem to settle back down into something reminiscent of small Southern towns at the turn of the century: a kazoo-and-jew's harp band winds its way through sultry afternoon gatherings, while dogs run squirrels up trees and stray couples sit or lay spaced out over the lawns beneath the branches...
Specifically, he is a secret Jew, fear ful of exposure, who holds one of the most ambiguous pseudo jobs ever dissembled by the mind of organization man. He clips murder stories from news papers for a homicide bureau in a large Eastern city. Neither true dick nor full flack, he keeps his gun at the office and carries a "badgette" rather than the big tin of real homicide...
...mieux's own survival results from the special status accorded to the Pope's Jews centuries ago. "During the last war," he recalls, "I wasn't arrested because I could prove I was a Pope's Jew. I actually went down to the Carpentras library to look up my family tree. I got back to Jacob crémieux, who was born in Carpentras in 1611. That was good enough for the Pétainists. Later on, four French fascist policemen prepared to arrest me anyway. But then an American bomb blew up police headquarters...
Gratefully the Jews included their benefactor in their prayers, petitioning God to "exalt our sovereign and Holy Father, the Pope." The group also developed a self-protective prejudice of their own. Foreign Jews were tolerated for three nights, then asked to leave. Lingerers were escorted out of town by the Pope's guard. When a "foreign" Jew married into the Carpentras circle, the locals called it a mixed marriage...
...that level, The Dirtiest Show in Town is surprisingly amusing. The nudes are graceful, handsome and refreshingly unselfconscious. Acting skill is secondary in group enterprises of this sort, but Jeffrey Herman is kinkily personable and quite funny as a gay Jew, and Madeleine le Roux plays a tall blonde lesbian with the icy authority of a lady storm trooper. Playwright Tom Eyen is perhaps the best guide to the underlying seriousness that animates his play even at its silliest and most scandalous: "We're getting the new sexual freedom suddenly, and we don't know how to cope...