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...Mutilated brings on a pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this...
...struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger stab at theater of the absurd that lacks lonesco's lunacy...
...Reid said that he and Dr. Rutstein had not trid to push too hard for passage of their bill last year, but are "not going to be quite as good-mannered this year...
...Reid-Rutstein bill would have premitted physicians to prescribe contraceptives. Some representatives argued that it might also have legalized the dispensal of birth-control devices or drugs without prescriptions...
Promoters of birth-control legislation are most optimistic this year because the Reid-Rutstein bill came from outside the House, whereas the new bill starts with the active support of the nine representatives who introduced...