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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive...
Dormant Danger. But even moderate regular smoking went with a startling rise in the chart for atypical cells: for men who smoked less than half a pack daily, it soared to 90.6% of the slides. In the half-pack to one-pack bracket, it was 97%; for one to two packs, 99.3%; more than two packs, 99.6%; and in lung cancer victims...
...cells lying dormant but presumably capable of erupting into fatal disease were not found in any nonsmokers or occasional smokers. But they occurred in .3% of slides in the group smoking less than half a pack daily; .8% in the half-pack-to-a-pack group; 4.3% in the one-to-two-packs group; and 11.4% of slides from men smoking more than two packs...
Five Finger Exercise (by Peter Shaffer) starts off with the look of one more mousy English country-house play, with the sound of one more reminiscent and easily resolvable tune. But it becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...
Undramatic though the play is, the final trouble lies less with subject matter than with form. Had Silent Night been not a full play but a longish one-acter, it might have had a special appeal. It could, just long and lyrically enough, have chronicled a meeting and sustained a mood-and with no tossed-in newlyweds, no shaky final scene. Unfortunately, as a one-acter it would not fit the Broadway scheme of things, though as a full-length play it scarcely fits it either...