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...safest speculations and half its entries will be comedies. Playwright Neil Simon, whose royalties in 1966 ran to $20,000 a week, will open Plaza Suite, four one-acters that have in common a Plaza Hotel locale, with George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton. Also back are Authors Norman Krasna, (Dear Ruth), Samuel Taylor...
...KRASNA...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. Groucho Marx star in a comedy written by Groucho and Norman Krasna...
...that every girl gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world...
Actors Stanley and Redford pump fresh air into Krasna's saggy script, especially its laugh-shy first act. But they cannot camouflage the fact that this type of play has long been outgrown by just about everyone whose first love was not a box office...