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Tipping is a formidable institution, and nowhere is it more slavishly and generously served than in Manhattan, where it costs 25? minimum to redeem a hat from a hat-chick, vastly more to ensure a second well-served meal from a Cadillac-owning waiter. Last spring the worst suspicions of tipping's intimidated victims-the customers-were confirmed when Hans Paul, headwaiter at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was sent to prison; over four years, the Government charged, Headwaiter Paul had evaded payment of $67,070 in taxes-all due on tips. Last week another headwaiter-Hans Paul...
After Tuesday sociability will be on much more of a grass roots level, but the Summer School administration will provide various opportunities for students who may have flunked the first big test to redeem themselves--or merely for people who like to dance to enjoy themselves. In contrast with past summers, which saw orchestra dances at the Union at an admission charge of about $1.00 per person, this season will feature six Friday evening dances--three phonograph-record mixers and three square dances--at the cost of only 25 cents per head. And as a sort of climactic note there...
...other actors tend to pall a little beside Loeb, but nearly all of them redeem themselves in the truly funny final scene. Here Edith Iselin, as Portia, and Paul Schmidt, as Bassanio, lose their initial remoteness and become recognizable as lovers. Jean Loud, in the part of Nerissa, is charming throughout, gaining stature as the play progresses. As Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Michael Pollatsek injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious...
...music for Love Rides the Rails by Varick Bacon and Victor Ziskin is uneven. Two show-stopping numbers, "Rag-Time Rosie" and "Friends" seem to redeem much of his material which generally lacks originality. Lyrics by Jay Cavior are quite clever. Choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer had little dancing talent to work with, but seems to have produced remarkable results--nothing fancy, but a varied and pleasing design. The outstanding freshness, which pervades throughout the production, may well have been stimulated by the originality of Webster Lithgow's truly inventive settings. Their informality and unobtrusiveness typifies a very relaxing and enjoyable production...
...understandable why the audience sometimes wonders about the credibility of the husband's behavior. Flimsy flashbacks and lack of continuity reinforce this weakness: The photography can also be criticized for rarely presenting a true white or black on the screen. But director Luis Bunel and photographer Garbriel Figueroa redeem themselves in the climactic scene where the husband's contact with reality slips and the camera sees the world through his eyes. The result is frightening. It also makes the end anticlimactic...