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Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...
...voice, and Powell's velvety, bourbon-cured baritone is clearly the voice that pleases Harlem's voters. In November, though aware of his defiance of the courts, they gave him a twelfth term with 74% of the vote. To them, "Old Adam," preacher, politician and perennial bon vivant, is a supremely satisfying symbol-a Negro who has managed to outplay Whitey at his own game. Still, Powell is so widely detested in the House that precedent may provide him with no pillow...
...Supermarkets have found that their gourmet counters are their handsomest profit earners, and are rapidly expanding them. "Sixty percent of the items in this store weren't here ten years ago," says the manager of Chicago's Stop 'n' Shop. De Falco's Bon Vivant supermarket in San Diego stocks more than 3,000 kinds of fancy foods, from kippered sturgeon and kangaroo tails to pickled rooster combs and 4-lb. tins of Caspian Sea caviar...
...lives. Timothy S. Mayer '66-?, exdean of Harvard theatre and musical bon vivant extraordinaire, has won the Phylis Anderson Award for his play Prince Erie...