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"Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs...
Miss Hayes makes the most of her one-woman show. Torching a custom-built Rodgers-Hammerstein number, 'I Haven't Got a Worry in the World,' or toasting everyone in sight from a tectering perch atop three bar stools (sample: "May all your troubles be little ones and may all...
While the writing lacks direction and in the final analysis seems to have gotten nowhere, the failure in impact is amply compensated by uproarious dialogue and a certain wackiness which can only be described as "Anita Loos." Tops in froth, Miss Loos drives her sharp-edged, relevant humor home with...
Happy Birthday--Helen Hayes in the pre-New York opening of Anita Loos' new play, at the Shubert Thursday.
Your "People" [TIME, Aug. 26] about the illustrious, beautiful, "neat, sexy, appealing and clean" Anita Loos has caused rising blood pressure in many. You say she threw up her hands at the wild younger generation. She is darn lucky she can still throw up her hands and pad her tummy...