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Coagulated Syrup. The company's longest single item is "The Post Office," a sort of Our Town story as Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's end, the postmaster is walking around with an inverted wastebasket covering his head. Poof! The postmaster disappears, but the basket is still there. This is typical of the evening's pseudoprofundities-here today, and a basket case tomorrow...
...rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality and Mussolini are jointly braised on Cummings' spit; an Ethiopian crap-shooter remarks, "If daze anything worse dan Christians, it certainly am peddyrasts...
...light, one-or two-man boats that could be bought for as little as $450 and transported atop the family car. Today's iceboats, with their needle-thin outriggers, look more like mosquitoes than sailboats. But a 10-m.p.h. breeze is all it takes to send them skit tering across the ice at 50 m.p.h., and speeds of 100 m.p.h. are common...
Down to Earth, a skit by Frederick H. Gardner '63, will be read in the Forum Room of Lamont today at 4:30 p.m. Robert M. Dawson '64 will read from his poetry...
...play is really a dialogue without a topic. The Zoo Story would be more successful as the straight comedy skit, which it seems to be at the opening, than the pseudo-tragedy it becomes...