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Strange Bedfellows (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Philip A. Waxman) could be called a period suffrage play-or, just as accurately, a sex play, period. It is a mechanically contrived, noisily operated, shamelessly maneuvered piece that achieves all the effect of a bedroom farce without offering even a glimpse...
Strange Bedfellows is aimed at the exact opposite of that "fit audience . . . though few" to which the poet Milton addressed his work. It will very likely hit the mark. If Playwrights Ryerson & Clements haven't invented a single thing, neither have they missed a single trick: they even remember to wedge the madam of a bordello into a frightfully genteel tea party. And though the authors are never witty, they have an uncanny sense of what will get a laugh; the secret being that it has always gotten one before...
...Ernest M. Hopkins, former president of Dartmouth College (chairman); Massachusetts' Ex-Governor Maurice J. Tobin; the University of California's Professor Knowles A. Ryerson...
TIME researchers also occasionally turn to Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...
From long experience, Miss Ryerson maintains that she can recognize almost any TIME employee by looking at his throat. Her work, of course, is mainly preventive medicine and, although she says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband...