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David Cole's "The King's Child, the King's Child, Ah!", a short play in four scenes, is a delightful piece of self-indulgence on Cole's part. Cole is a junior, whose play "How I Worked It With the Bush" displayed the same kind of wit and competence as this new play, an elaborate piece of buffoonery about a King Midas who is granted his wish. "How I Worked It With the Bush," though, was a more controlled piece of comedy...
...usual, the major share of the total profit ($2,212,709) reported by the New York Times Co. came from a Canadian paper mill in which the Times holds a 42% interest. It still seems to pay better to turn out blank paper than to have the wit to say something...
...most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic scene. He describes General Washington's arriving late...
...Nevertheless, the profligate is not without honor in Britain; Only Two Can Play is currently breaking box-office records there. Its success is understandable. Based on a bestselling novel (That Uncertain Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm...
Warming to the evening's mood, the President's wit ranged widely. Recalling his efforts to persuade the U.S. to drink milk as an aid to the dairy industry, he said: "I am certainly enjoying being with you newsmen this evening. None of you know how tough it is to have to drink milk three times a day." He used the occasion to return the press-conference barbs thrown frequently at him, as at President Eisenhower, by Newswoman Sarah McClendon. "I saw my wife's picture watching a snake charmer in India," Kennedy said. "As soon...