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...first in a series of "Union Platter Parties" will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in the Union, John S. Hermann '53, Chairman of the Union Dance Committee, announced last night...
...Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem to be happening...
PETER ARNO'S SIZZLING PLATTER (118 pp.)-Simon & Schuster...
Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...
...hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans (and the editors of The New Yorker, where most of his work appears) unrelenting. "They have to have a joke," he says sadly, "or they want no part of it." Platter buyers will quickly...