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...Clean Haul. "The women are our biggest problem," complains one Washington, D.C., police inspector. "They will hide their purses under their desks, in typewriter wells and desk drawers. These are the first places a professional office thief looks." A female Washington employee of Air France was robbed twice in one day. Purses, wallets, postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed...
...dialogue is out of some high school play. Lois reacts to the news that her Texas boy friend (Karl Maiden) has $40 million by saying: "All us girls have our price." Dolores does not care if the baron is really an international jewel thief who has been using her as a diamond drop, "because I happen to be in love with you." And when Pamela stomps into the cockpit to tell Pilot O'Brian that "there are plenty of other men in the world," he probably would have slugged her if he had not been busy driving the plane...
...Balcony. The first brothel was a temple. In antiquity the Mother Goddess was worshiped in the person of the sacred prostitute. Today the idea of erotic relations between heaven and earth persists in the fantasies of a frightening Frenchman named Jean Genet, an abandoned child who became successively a thief, a prostitute, a convict, and the most ferociously brilliant poet now at work in the French theater of the absurd. In The Balcony, a drama that resembles both a burlesque show and a Black Mass. Genet expounds his fantasies in a monstrous metaphor: the world is a vast brothel operated...
...nonsensical events: a minister (Robert Preston), disguised as a jewel thief and accompanied by a hotel chambermaid (Eileen Heckart). coaxes an invalided gentlewoman (Glynis Johns) into letting him sell her pearls and kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...
Divorced. By Rita Gam, 34, occasional cinemactress (The Thief): Thomas Guinzburg, 36, touchy Viking Press executive, who, according to Rita, started all their trouble when he gave up smoking; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Juárez, Mexico...