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...Picnic," a technical triumph by playwright William Inge, sometimes swaps precision for honest emotion, but the production, with excellent acting by Janice Rule and Ralph Meeker, is uniformly effective...
...lovely pair of legs and tries hard to live up to them. Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore, as the collection agents for a prominent gambler, should bring down the house as two of the daintiest thugs who ever did a sentimental buck and wing at the annual picnic of Murder, Inc. The rest of the dances, however, seem overrehearsed-as though the dancers had long since stopped enjoying them. Only the music, some of the very best that Cole Porter ever wrote, is unimpaired; the picture is almost worth seeing just to hear it again...
...Belafonte sings with his intriguing Calypso style and in a few of the sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious as the vamp of Paris...
Beverage List. In Milwaukee, Clarence L. Drinkwater was fined $100 for drunken driving after he had loaded up on beer and whisky at a milkmen's picnic...
...outstanding prospects has been vicious in the past. Now, however, the fraternities have formed a strict honor code which must be observed in dealing with freshmen. Some of the examples: A first semester freshman cannot double date with a frat man or pledge, he can not go on a picnic with frat men, or go to the movies with a frat...