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...chuckles, whinnies and convulsions. And it shows in her writing. Simple in style, mundane in subject matter, her thrice-weekly column for 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Boston Globe) has a title that precisely conveys her puckish point of view. She calls it "At Wit's End." What most tickles Erma, a former women's news reporter for the Dayton Journal Herald, is her unfashionable fascination with being a housewife. Her beat, she once wrote, is the utility room...
...famed brothers, it is Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho who achieves inspired mimicry. He has the best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...
...first-year total of 50,000 invited guests. They have been treated to an imaginative and varied array of entertainment. While the Nixon White House probably will never exchange its basic gray for psychedelic Technicolor, it has already shown itself to be the perfect background for colorful splashes of wit and talent...
...RATS and The Indian Wants the Bronx are not plays, but rather scenes by Israel Horovitz which opened at the Charles Playhouse this past Thursday. Neither of the offerings has the force and wit (or even obscenity and music) of Horovitz's later play, Morning -part of the trilogy Morning, Noon, and Night -which had its New England premiere at the Loeb last fall. It is apparent that Horovitz knows how to write at least the beginnings and ends of plays, but the middles fall through. In Rats, the evening's opener, two rats discuss their backgrounds and childhoods...
Bearded Ted Gold was the son of two physicians; his father, Hyman, is known as "the Movement Doctor" for his free treatment of penniless radicals. Gold was a bright, committed student in New York's Stuyvesant High, where a former teacher, Bernard Flicker, recalls: "He had everything-wit, charm. He could have been anything." At Columbia University, Gold began as a moderate leftist, working for civil rights and antiwar causes. But he moved further toward the fringe, Flicker says, and "began to feel that protests did no good, that nothing could change. In the end, he took the view...