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...talk much these days about the "special relationship," but everyone knows that it still exists. We share more than just a common language-our men have died side by side in two wars. As for our being "ungovernable," Eric Sevareid has been listening to too much saloon-bar talk...
...Nights in A Barroom. A temperance drama of the decline and fall of a saloon-keeper and the alternating fortunes of his customers. More of a social historical document than an aesthetic success, the piece is played dead seriously but turns out to be quite enjoyable, and, of course, pretty funny to a modern audience. It's good to see the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, always a good, cause, getting out of the Broadway-musical rut they'd been in for their last few productions Originally they were going to do Witness for the Prosecution but the lead got mono...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...
...glory undiminished by bad scripts and usually poor direction. Recently she arrived in the U.S. to start filming Robert Aldrich's Hustle. But before she left Paris, she allowed herself to be used to promote her latest movie, Zig-Zig, by posing in Esmeralda's, an erotic saloon in Pigalle, one of the few locales where a girl can get a laugh these days...
Though no more libidinous than the strip shows at Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon, Last Fado was an erotic milestone for Lisbon. A month ago, a still bolder step was taken by Producer Ruth Escobar, 39, who offered audiences her production of a play called Autos Sacramentais (Sacramental Rites). A dramatization of the eternal struggle between good and evil, it featured 14 Brazilians of both sexes cavorting onstage au nature! for two hours. A 69-year-old orange farmer who watched the production remarked: "It would have been better if there had been more lights...