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WHAT'S GOT YOUR BACK UP? by Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
Auspitz: Ah. After all those dreary British comedies and Hollywood laff riots, the real thing is here at last: Gaelic Wit. Ho. ho: Victor fell out of bed again...
...Terence Galvin, does some of the finest acting in the play; only his haste in speaking spoils the naturalness of his performance. A group of construction workers in one of the play's flashbacks deserves praise, as does Eric von Salzen, who plays an effete actor with wit and great skill...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own," wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. The subject in A Man for All Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose...
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and wit...