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Author Reginald Rese's play is hampered by a documentary style that lets a narrator (Ben Grauer) appear to talk more than the principals, and by the author's constant, heavy-handed insistence that his protagonists are innocent victims of political and race prejudice, thus never allowing the viewer to draw that conclusion on his own. The prosecutor is shown as ruthlessly concerned with his own ambitions, the Governor of Massachusetts is a millionaire, hence clearly untrustworthy, witnesses are bought and browbeaten. Regardless of whether or not all this black villainy is true in detail (and Playwright Rose...
...nightclub reporters groped for the right words for the newest French import. Wrote one: "She sounds like Edith Piaf [TIME, Oct. 3, 1949] but looks like a younger edition of Peggy Hopkins Joyce." Tried another: "A young Piaf, but pretty." Meanwhile, blonde Marjane (short for Marie Jane Thérese Gendebian) had Manhattan café socialites begging for more of her songs...