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Albert Borowitz, as Pygropolynices, the soldier whose amorous conquests pale before his last defeat, plays his role with a flair that is truly laugh-provoking. Swishing his sword about, gazing at himself in his mirror--which he continually carries about with him--he plays the title role with great gusto. He enjoys it himself, and certainly last night's audience did. John Rexine plays the old gentleman of Ephesus, Periplectomenus, naturally and well and George Mulhern gives a fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper...
...reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them.) It is the title story, far from her usual pattern, which makes "The Lottery" an exceptional book...
...week's end, Columnist Walter Winchell sneered in Hearst's rival Mirror that the brawl was just "a neat press [agents'] stunt." The News, which didn't care, gratefully prepared to send $10 to the nightclubber who had tipped...
Indecent & Undisciplined. Actually, says Bell, Americans have very little to be complacent about. The most accurate mirror of their civilization, he contends, is the Henry Aldrich radio skit; the typical American boy is no longer Tom Sawyer or Penrod, but Henry Aldrich himself. He is "almost indecently adolescent . . . undisciplined, self-assertive, bewildered by life
...past year, radio's Tex McCrary has been looking at television with a speculative eye. An A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...