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Some Northerners attribute the new President's demonstrativeness to Southern ways. But an Atlanta public relations woman, Joanna Hanes, declares that "social kissing is more a Northern, sophisticated fad that seems to be moving south." In fact, like the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century, the epidemic of social kissing has persisted for some years and touched almost every section of the country. In Boston, Beacon Hill ladies can be seen rubbing cheeks at their clubs. Among usually subdued Midwesterners, the custom is growing, although one partygiver in Chicago admits: "Once when I kissed a fellow...
Handlin, who received degrees from Brooklyn College and Columbia University, is survived by her husband and three children: Joanna F. Handlin, David P. Handlin and Ruth B. Handlin, a teaching fellow in Harvard's English Department...
Garry's relationships inevitably lead him into trouble. He becomes entangled in a menage-a-quatre involving his agents Hugo and Morris and Hugo's wife Joanna. The problem is that Morris loves Joanna while Joanna no longer cares for Hugo but has eyes for Garry. This threatening catch in a series of casual liaisons drives Garry back to the security of his wife...
...combination of grace, warmth, and level-headedness that makes Liz a perfect complement to Garry's irresponsibility. Philip Kraft turns in a hilarious character bit as Roland Maule, affecting nervous and eccentric mannerisms that convincingly delineate his madness. But Susan Schwartz is miscast as the seductive and elegantly attractive Joanna; she is just too abrasive and overtly aggressive. Joanna's seduction of Garry in the second act becomes an attack by a brazen beast...
...cast fill their roles with 18th century gusto. Teresa Toulouse, for example, combines the vengefulness of Gilbert and Sullivan's jilted Katisha with the coarse bumptiousness of Eliza the Flower Girl in her characterization of Lucy Lockit, Polly Peachum's rival for the love of the unfaithful highwayman Macheath. Joanna Blum as Mrs. Peachum also plays her role to the hit. Unscrupulous and unmarried, she jerks around the stage, hands on hips, spitting out cynical asides to the audience...