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...model productions are revolutionary in more than one sense. All the traditional elements of Peking opera except the singing have disappeared. Antiseptic plots portray the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. The performers, appearing in subdued makeup and homespun cotton garments, substitute unadorned realism for symbolic ritual. The scores are laden with inspirational hymns and martial effects...
...systematic murder of 6,000,000 of Europe's Jews by the Nazis during World War II was an act of such un speakable horror that any attempt to portray it has inevitably paled before the fact. Nonetheless, since war's end, some 50 U.S. local and national Jew ish organizations have been searching continually for sculptors or architects to design a suitable monument. Finally, three years ago, a formal Committee to Commemorate the Six Million Jewish Martyrs was set up. The art advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Washington Insuranceman-Collector David Lloyd Kreeger, had no difficulty...
Idyllic Suburb. Those advertisers who have crossed the color line are now confronted with a new problem: how to portray the Negro. Self-conscious to a fault, integrated commercials never show a Negro as a heavy or in a menial position. Nor are blacks ever afflicted with bad breath or body odor. Kool cigarettes, for example, casts a Negro actor as a bright young trial lawyer; Viceroy casts another as a bright young stockbroker. Schaefer beer has a junior executive type who plays hand ball at the club with a white friend, who throws his arm around his shoulder...
...Chase Manhattan Bank, which loves to portray itself as the friend of borrowers big and little, last week played that role to the hilt. The bank, the nation's third largest, cut its prime rate-the interest charge to its best business customers for loans - from 61% to 6%. The repercussions were plentiful, and in part acrimonious...
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again and raps out three short hits. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton are either hilarious or sentimental as they portray middle-aged couples in sometimes awkward, always amusing predicaments...