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...hope Mr. Conley (that's the way he's listed on the program) fancies himself a songwriter rather than a playwright; the songs are the highlights of the show. The singing argument ("Oh Yeah, Well Who's Got Christmas?") between the aged sorcerer (Bill Smock) and the medicant friar (Steve Bergman) over the relative merits of magic and religion is easily as good as anything I've heard at Harvard--including Pudding Shows...
...mark for sentimental demonstrations." It is good, finally, to have Harlem approximated; and as a child psychiatrist who has worked with Negro and white children in the South's desegregated school's and in northern ghettoes, I had heretofore overlooked the susceptibility of those children to "sentimental demonstrations." Mr. Smock tells us exactly the stuff of those demonstrations: "childish naivete is set against hopeless circumstances for maximum pathos." I'll have to remember that the next time I treat a young Negro delinquent of seven or eight, already tough, yet soon, in treatment, able to speak his fears and confusions...
...said to tell of a world that "exists for sure only in ... (the director's) imagination." Moreover: "No doubt violence does rear up without warning in real Harlem life, but these scuffies come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance." Precisely, and a cheer for Mr. Smock. At long last I can understand what really ails the slum children I've been treating. Their difficulty has been one of experiencing scuffles that come too fast for their own comprehension as human beings. At least "The Cool World" has stimulated that discovery, and to be frank...
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Helena Rubinstein proved to have the better business head. "I am a merchant," she liked to boast. To give her products a scientific cast, she climbed into a laboratory smock, hired a doctor for each of her salons. She pioneered department-store cosmetic sales in 1926 at San Francisco's City of Paris, then grandly turned down orders for less than $25,000 when other stores clamored for her products. She introduced medicated face creams and waterproof mascara, was the first to send saleswomen on the road to demonstrate proper makeup for ordinary women. She was also wise enough...