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...REVUES : Writers Eric Bentley and S. J. Perelman have contributed presumably literate material to Cut Loose! (Sept. 13), which has dipped elsewhere for its lyricists-to James (From Here to Eternity} Jones, for example. Beyond the Fringe, which has had London round the bend with laughter for two seasons, has been only lightly red-white-and-bluepenciled for American ears...
...WGBH studio may force Washington to make a decision on the John F. Kennedy library which the president will build at Harvard to house his official papers. Kennedy has reportedly been deciding between sites on Soldiers Field at the bend of the Charles River or on the Charles at Western Ave. The WGBH building may pre-empt the latter sight...
...drives directors and fellow actors round the bend with his fussy attention to minutiae. "Five hundred small details add up to an impression," he says. He once went over the scalps of innumerable extras to see if their hair had been properly dyed. Filming That Touch of Mink, he went shopping with Co-Star Doris Day and supervised her purchase of shoes, skirts and blouses to wear in the picture; back in Hollywood, he was so disturbed when he saw the paintings on a set wall that he held up production while he went home and returned with better ones...
...with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune of De Camptown Races...
...head lady turn the right-hand gent Once around, once around. Bend to your honey and left hand round, Oh doodar day. The lady in the center and seven hands around, The old red hen, the old red hen, The hen flies out and the crow hops in Join your hands and around again With your right foot up and your left foot down, Keep with the music and shake her down...