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...tiptoe waving ribbons and little umbrellas." Then she graduated to Broadway chorus jobs, and eventually wound up in Chicago with Paul Sills' Second City after marrying one of its actors, Richard Schaal. Along the way she supported herself by appearing in industrial shows introducing new products to out-of-town distributors. Her most memorable roles: a stripteaser in a peanut-butter show, and a dancer who pirouetted around a Chevrolet singing, "The mighty voice of Chevrolet rings out across the land...
...conservative. His strongest expletives are "Sugar!" and "Son of a biscuit!" and the most damning thing he generally says?this time about a Democratic Senator?is that "he is a weak tinkler." Anderson still plays hockey in an oldtimers' league, jogs daily, packs golf clubs for his out-of-town trips and likes to open the fishing season, although he has had little time for the sport otherwise. He is a staunch civil libertarian, and while he would not think of going to see Deep Throat, or even Last Tango in Paris, he would never consider trying to shut them...
...Luce, the revival has already been an exercise in déjà vu. Though she, like many younger women in the women's movement, sees the play almost as a tract for Women's Lib, the out-of-town critics, like their predecessors a generation ago, were shocked that a woman could say such spiteful things about other women. "They just do not like to think that there could ever have existed this particular streak in women," she says with a laugh. "It is most chivalrous of them. But what annoys me just a little is that...
...most striking aspect of the crowd seems to be the presence the thousands and thousands of young people. An out-of-town visitor estimated that "surely over one-third of the gallery is under 22 or so." He put this in perspective when he said "I'm amazed there are so many teenagers here since these tickets are so expensive ($25 for the four days) and so difficult...
Along with its manufacturing preeminence, New York is losing its position as a sales showroom for dresses, wherever made. Visits by out-of-town buyers, who more and more fear that they will be mugged, have dropped 8% in the last five years. Three years ago, Alley Cat, a Philadelphia-based maker of women's boutique and sportswear fashions, sold its entire output through a showroom in Manhattan. Since then, it has opened salesrooms in Dallas and Los Angeles; last year, only about 30% of its garments were sold in New York. Says Jerry Silverman, president of a Manhattan...