Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wedding Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo...
...comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...
Students planning to take the Selective Service college deferment tests Dec. 9 must file their applications before midnight tonight to have them considered, Mrs. Ruth Dow of Transfer Board 17 in Phillips Brooks House announced yesterday...
Arts & Crafts. In Moultrie, Ga., accused of smuggling a hacksaw blade to prisoners in Colquitt County jail, Mrs. Ruth Lower, 18, protested: "The boys in there told me they wanted the blade to saw soup bones. I didn't know they were going...
...camera crisis racked the Buick-Berle Show. Tiny Ruth Gilbert (Mrs. Emanuel Feinberg), who plays Max, a secretary madly in love with Milton, is scheduled to have a real-life baby in February. Unfortunately, as one of the show's producers puts it, "she looks as if she's going to have it today." Since her comic line is that she passionately wants to marry Berle, her pregnancy presented a problem that has, so far, been avoided only by keeping her seated at a desk. Berle's writers suggested that she be written out of the show...