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...generally apathetic as Alkmena but conveyed Alkmena's conquetry and supicious insight. She deserves credit for stepping into her role on one day's notice. Paul Fithian's fatuous Amphitryon, Henry Franck's priggish Trumpeter, Ellen Whitman's inappropriately uncosmopolitan Queen Leda contribute to the carnival of characters who romp through the play. Giraudoux's classico-modern play is typical of many twentieth century French plays that use classical myths to reveal unexpected truths about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated as versions of Greek myths not only retain the desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity...
However, Giraudoux fails to maintain a balance between ideas and spicy French sex, and the play becomes bikini. Interspersed with rationalistic salvos are a crescendo of kisses, lovers entwined like vine leaves on a Greek frieze and racy gods until the romp is reduced to a gala Gallic gaiety and the comedy verges on hedonism. Frankly, three hours of the bed become boring...
...months passed, a deep affection developed between the nurse and the baby gorilla. They would romp together uproariously. Knorke would race around the room, dive under Rosemarie's bed, scramble out the other side and leap into her arms. She found he was terribly ticklish over nearly all his body; even a slight tickling drove him into paroxysms of gorilla laughter, a rapid, staccato inhaling...
...Prince and the Showgirl. Sir Laurence Olivier puts Marilyn Monroe through some evasive hip action in a Graustarkian romp around 1911 London (TIME, June...
Others turned Norman's suicide into an anti-U.S. romp. Tory Leader John Diefenbaker attributed Norman's death to "witch-hunting proclivities of certain congressional inquisitors," and the CCF's Alistair Stewart cried that Norman had been "murdered by slander." Editorials in general were bitter...