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...Race (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is something for the rubbernecks who think New York is a great place to visit but would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
...Kanin's hero (Tony Curtis) is a young sax maniac from Milwaukee who has come to Manhattan to blow the town down-he stands for Innocence. The heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...even his saxophone are gone. The taxi dancer, who by this time is in love with the twerp, wants to put him back in the music business, but how can the poor girl make $200 to buy her jazzbo a new set of tubes? In New York, says Scriptwriter Kanin grimly, there is only one way a poor girl can make that kind of money. Will she do it? Will she let the villain sully her virtue and filet her soul? Hardly. Scriptwriter Kanin may find it good show business to exploit the dark alleys that lead off the Great...
...Good Soup (adapted from the French of Felicien Marceau by Garson Kanin) constitutes, even to the form it takes, the reminiscences of a coldly successful French cocotte. Ruth Gordon, as the middle-aged Marie-Paule, unfolds them to a Monte Carlo croupier, while Diane Cilento acts out Marie-Paule's earlier self. Later, when Marie-Paule is no longer young, Actress Gordon wistfully dismisses Actress Cilento as her "vanished youth" and herself takes over the part. From prostitution in "half-hour hotels," Marie-Paule had gone on to living grubbily with men, and then to being kept, and then...
...Good Soup, by Felicien Marceau, adapted by Garson Kanin, uses one of the theater's favorite recipes, the life story of a prostitute. In her older years she is Ruth Gordon (her first Broadway appearance since The Matchmaker); in her younger years she is Diane Cilento. Both are onstage much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman...