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...According to a longtime resident, officially dry Bombay has become a "gigantic distillery where most of the citizens either drink, brew or smuggle in liquor with the kind of know-how that would have made Dutch Schultz green with envy." Speakeasies can be found in luxurious midtown apartments and in one-room shacks on the city's swampy outskirts. Sometimes the booze is genuine Scotch sneaked ashore from visiting freighters; more often it is a strange local concoction with a name like Jungle Flower, which has been distilled from such ingredients as varnish, kerosene, gasoline or rotting bananas...
Monster Octagon. What this means for New York may be examined in terms of that still-unfinished midtown giant, the Pan American Building, an elongated octagon that stands athwart Park Avenue between the Grand Central Terminal and the once proud Grand Central Building, now diminished to a small shadow against the looming white concrete slab...
Salesman & City Saver. The new Chase headquarters building combines the familiar Rockefeller urge to improve New York City with the more practical aim of selling Chase spectacularly. While other banks were deserting the crowded downtown financial district for roomy midtown offices, David defiantly bought a chunk of downtown land that Morgan Guaranty Trust had decided was too waterlogged to build on. The result: the Chase Manhattan Plaza, where lower Manhattan's first good-looking new building in half a century sits in the midst of a spacious, tree-studded terrazzo terrace. The new Chase headquarters has the nation's biggest...
Marseille figured it was getting an overdose. Of the 12,000 hotel rooms in the city, 8,000 are permanently rented to the strangers; housing conditions are so overcrowded that often as many as 15 pieds-noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic jam as 800 pied-noir cars arrive from Algeria daily; and the newcomers have an irksome habit of breaking the city's antinoise ordinance by honking the five notes Al-gér-ie Fran-çaise on their car horns. Many angry parents have discovered that the hordes...
Paradoxically, off-Broadway theatre has never been able to survive more than a few blocks off Broadway; a few noble experiments have been made, but when the soil is not that of midtown Manhattan, the transplanted shoots just wither and die. Yet, as the current production of the Cohasset Music Circus suggests, this may be a good thing. Perhaps the restraining influence of the legitimate, conventional theatre is necessary to the health of a reasonable experimental theatre. In any case, "The Two-Headed Baby" - an "off-Broadway" experiment by Ellis Andrews - does nothing more than take a broad jump over...