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Arsenic and Old Lace is a delightfully funny play. Neither age nor the not-quite-first-rate present production obscures more than a trifle of Mr. Kesselring's mad theatical...
...stage, is also fine. The whole production is directed with care and spirit by Bretaigne Windust; he introduces several amusing gestures and poses, creates humor with several clever props--e.g., a dead man's shoes--and his ingenious curtain calls are witty. As a whole, Arsenic and Old Lace is a pleasure...
...Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp of a rangy mind not to be fobbed off with commonplaces. To get the feel of Venice, she proceeds not by touch, but by touchstones...
Please tell Luis Patricio Sullivan of Mexico City [Aug. 27] that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...
...sooner had Maria-dressed in a red lace decollete sheath-given correct answers to eight questions on Greek tragedy (thus qualifying for 640,000 lire, or $1,024) than thousands of televiewers and an excitable press began complaining of her "exuberant body." Harried program directors corralled Italy's top couturiers in an effort to camouflage Maria, who complained: "Can I help it if I'm not built like a telephone pole...