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When Michael Todd's raw and raucous Peep Show opened on Broadway a fortnight ago (TIME, July 10), Critic John Chapman of the New York Daily News wrote a balanced review, praising the show's pretty girls but deploring Todd's vulgarity. His verdict: an embarrassingly dirty show. To Critic Chapman's annoyance, thick-skinned Producer Todd called up to thank him for a good box-office notice...
Michael Todd's Peep Show is one of those torrid salutes to sex that are considered especially well suited to hot weather. Naturally, it tends to differ from anyone else's peep show, for in recent years nobody has equaled Producer Mike Todd at making burlesque resplendent, respectable and remunerative on Broadway. Of legs and the girl he sings, believing that for many a customer the lure of the female form outranks anything devisable by the human brain. Nonetheless, in show business the human brain can be a help; and Peep Show needs a terrible lot of helping...
...girls are many, and often truly magnificent, whether in fine feathers or bare flesh. They strut and prance and gorgeously fill the stage, bringing the breath of life to tired businessmen-and God knows what to such as are not tired. Otherwise, Peep Show's cupboard is almost as bare as its chorines. The skits, which Bobby Clark staged but did not act in, are mostly ancient and frightful. The one exception: an almost hilarious take-off on The Cocktail Party. Only a little less crushing than the sketches are the more monumental of the spectacles. One of these...
...beat heat, weep peep &c are of the pipe...
...rare excursions from her apartment, Rossellini had had a brawl with photographers waiting to snap them. Complained Ingrid: "I cannot even take my baby out of this house because I know there will be a battery of photographers badgering us. I cannot even go to take a peep at my baby on the terrace because [of the] photographers...