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Hearts and flowers are taking second place to skulls and daggers on valentine cards this year, Square merchants reported yesterday. Billet-doux featuring miniature nooses are replacing the lace and satin affairs of times past...
Deluxe cards sprinkled with simulated jewels and collections of Donne's poems in lace-decorated volumes are among the eye-catchers featured...
Four Twelves Are 48 (by Joseph Kesselring; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) was the first play of Kesselring's to reach Broadway since Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941. It was also very nearly the worst play to reach Broadway since that time. It dealt with a family whose females, one after another, became unmarried mothers at twelve. Almost certainly anyone with the ability to handle such a subject would lack the desire. Playwright Kesselring handled it so crudely that, before the show closed after two performances, he had audiences wincing and yawning...
...insecurity led to all sorts of adolescent petulance. Once, when he was not invited to a party on the Riviera, he stood behind a hedge and peppered the guests with garbage. Zelda kept right up with him. At a farewell party for Alexander Woollcott, she kicked off her black lace panties and presented them as a go-ing-away present. When budding Novelist Robert Penn Warren praised This Side of Paradise, Scott truculently replied: "You mention that book again and I'll slug...
...Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...