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Everybody Loves Opal (by John Patrick) is a try at sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered...
...involves a love triangle, with a cuckolded dentist at the base (Nov. 1). Julie Harris will appear as a chambermaid employed by a French millionaire in Marcel Achard's The Naked Truth. Playwright John Patrick (The Teahouse of the August Moon) returns to Broadway with Everybody Loves Opal, starring Eileen Heckart...
...down Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and in and out of 35 design houses last week hiked Mrs. Opal Ligon, the "better dress" buyer for Goudchaux's, the best department store in Baton Rouge, La. Mrs. Ligon's pilgrimage was duplicated about 4,000 other buyers who crowded into the fashion shows and showrooms to buy the clothes that U.S. women will wear this fall. Like most of her colleagues, she cut through the razzmatazz and made swift, sharp decisions...
...good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes as "church-and-drinking dresses"-they can go anywhere. "Air conditioning has changed the picture," said Opal, as she examined some woolens. "Used to be you couldn't buy a good, even slightly heavy wool for the South. Now I buy wool and wool and wool...
Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...