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When rattle-tongued Washington society columnist Mary ("Molly") Van Rensselaer Thayer fell in love with the Air Force, she made it plain that she expected plenty of reciprocation. Though Molly writes all her copy lying in bed, her enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
...officer let them in on a secret-she felt she was too fat and had decided to diet off her "Christmas blubber" before being measured for a uniform. But this, it became obvious, was only a technical delay. Her maid immediately began answering the telephone with the words: "Colonel Thayer's residence...
Outstanding are Thayer David as the myopic Monsieur Organ, Priscilla Morrill as the spunky maid, and Paul Ballantyne as an Enlightened bourgeois. Jan Farran is a tempting Madam Organ, and Jerry Kilty is, just as he should be, incredibly impetuous as Monsieur Organ's son. Kilty parodies--with the utmost skill--Baroque music and Baroque graces in a lyric which he has written for Louis XIV, who, by the way, is seated in the Brattle Royal Box. And then there is Fred Gwynne who during the Prologue wanders in briefly as a most foppish of fops...
...local losses (Dave Carter, Harvey Thayer, and Geoff Tootell) have not hit the Crimson nearly so hard...
...Hardy led the winners with five points while his temmates scored evenly behind him. Jim Donovan led Thayer with three long sets and a foul for seven markers. In another game, Thayer Middle edged Wigglesworth East...