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...allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl (ABC), a sort of My Sister Eileen, starring Danny Thomas' saucy daughter Mario. She is much snappier than her material, and at 26 is unmistakably a hot new talent...
...lassitude that overhung much of the show last night was temporary and correctible. Actors can be encouraged to deliver their lines with more conviction, members of the chorus told to feign interest in what they're singing, light and curtain cues picked up, the entire show made faster, snappier. The audience last night wasn't the sort that can energize a cast; it had, after all, passed up both "a tragedy of sex" and an original play for adults only in order to see a 20-year-old musical comedy...
...stories include Backwards, a knockdown farce that deflates the modern millionaire's cringing devotion to liberal cliches; Josse, a tale of venomous and elderly siblings caught in a snarling web of dependence; and The Boy Martin, in which a corrupt young whippersnapper discovers that his elders are even snappier and far more corrupt...
Price of Exit. Oddly emphasizing this limited explanation, with its reflection on Her Majesty's Navy, the Admiralty launched a new morale-building program: better food and snappier uniforms for the "lower deck," liberalized leaves, shorter foreign-service tours, more opportunity for families to join sailors at overseas stations. Some men below commission ranks will be allowed to buy their way out of the navy, a practice suspended since World War II. The price: $140 to $350, depending on training and length of service...
Anarchist to Anarchist. By 1927, slipping sales made Ford realize that his model T was out of fashion, and he shifted to the snappier, more powerful model A in time to avert disaster. But he could still find time to interest himself in others' troubles. Ford, who had been called an anarchist by the Chicago Tribune in 1916, spoke out against a death sentence for the Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Two days before the execution in Boston, Vanzetti wrote Ford: "I have always claimed my intire innocence and I will die affirming it. We have an extraordinary mass...