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...character" posters pasted on the city's walls first popped up five months ago as impromptu, crudely lettered marching orders for Mao's rabble-rousing young Red Guards. As China's power struggle has gathered ferocity, handwriting on the wall has developed into the fine art of big character assassination, purge by poster and partisan propagandizing. Every morning, foreign correspondents in Peking eagerly scan the walls for information notably unavailable in the Chinese press itself...
Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...
Behind the tiers are a series of painted flats which definitely need reinforcement. During the last act they were almost battered down. More important, something should be done about the poster-paint job on the flats which cries "High School" as force-fully as any college sweatshirt...
...Scott, an actor of range and brilliance both on stage (The Merchant of Venice, Desire Under the Elms] and screen (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove). In Wife, he rises above all the plane foolishness to present a perfect caricature of the square-jawed joe on the Air Force recruiting poster. Curtis and Lisi do well to look competent in his company. And some congratulations are due Director Norman Panama, who keeps this airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail to notice how much of the ho ho is really just...
...campaign style. Adlai's speeches tend to be dull and confused, his public image is weak and could use more color; for humor he relies too often on his father's old stories -- the most famous is one about his father seeing a conspicuously pregnant woman carrying a large poster at a presidential rally with the words ADLAI IS THE MAN on it. In a word, Adlai III needs more flavor...