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Kiss and Tell (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by George Abbott) is a funny play about kid stuff in war time. Though Playwright Herbert's characters are obvious types, he has been busy with a stencil sharpener. The whole thing is given a first-rate George Abbott workout, lickety-splitting from family comedy to suburban chaos...
...Freshman aspirant wears white ducks, white sneakers and a white sweat shirt, with his name stenciled on the back, a la West Point. By the time he is a Sophomore, our little friend is still white-ducked and white sneakered, but he has a black sweater to protect him from the often icy blasts of Soldiers Field. Since people generally know you when you're a Sophomore manager, the name tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous...
With a sly grin, Wendell Willkie used the quotation to make a telling point: the Republican Party need not accept the stencil that it is the party of high tariffs and protectionism; it should take the lead today in bringing about renewal of reciprocal trade treaties and Lend-Lease extension...
Serigraph, or Silk-Screen Print (TIME, Nov. 11, 1940), printed through a stencil which has been built up with glue or lacquer on a semitransparent silk screen. Pigment, oozing through the silk, creates a meshlike, colorful surface...
...broad laughs, its even broader satire, its jumble of incident, its rush of events. There was no need to treat the theme solemnly. But there was no need to take all the guts and sinew out of it, to make every character an exaggeration, every action a stencil, every speech a cliché-and then bathe the entire scene in a lurid purple light. But all these faults don't make it dull. It has as much kick as a decanter of bad whiskey...