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The February 1964 issue of Playboy features a special jazz and hi-fi theme, including the results of the Playboy Jazz Poll and a panel discussion with notable jazz musicians. The magazine also includes a new novel by P.G. Wodehouse, humor pieces, and articles on fashion and lifestyle. Additionally, it addresses contemporary issues such as hallucinogenic drugs and individual freedom through various contributions from well-known authors and critics.
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The February 1964 issue of Playboy features a special jazz and hi-fi theme, including the results of the Playboy Jazz Poll and a panel discussion with notable jazz musicians. The magazine also includes a new novel by P.G. Wodehouse, humor pieces, and articles on fashion and lifestyle. Additionally, it addresses contemporary issues such as hallucinogenic drugs and individual freedom through various contributions from well-known authors and critics.
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FEBRUARY 1964 + 75 CENTS ENT FOR MEN SPECIAL JAZZ & HI-FI ISSUE WINNERS IN PLAYBOY JAZZ POLL THE LATEST IN HI-FI EQUIPMENT THE PLAYBOY RECORD LIBRARY PLAYBOY PANEL ON JAZZ TODAY AND TOMORROW WITH STAN KENTON, DIZZY GILLESPIE, DAVE BRUBECK, GERRY MULLIGAN AND OTHERS PLUS MAMIE VAN DOREN UNADORNED BOUDOIR FUN WITH RICHARD BURTON A NEW NOVEL BY P. G. WODEHOUSE (On your tip Spain dig 1s Caracles, There youl find Canadian Club," The Best ba The Ho Senor Bofarull of Barcelona greets you with a fine sense of gusto and Canadian Club Los Caracoles. nails,” has won the esteem of travelers who make no bones about enjoying life. sea food is eaten on tooth- picks, the welkin rings with laug/ ter, and the Canadian Club, to the satisfaction of all, is omnipresent. The en; host of Los believes that if you relish life's pleas His exh nraveler to Fse The walls are f clusters, the air charg. the Canadian Club for Why ch ity? Te has the I whisky evening lon; in short ones before dinner, itt tall ier. adian Club—world’s lightest whisky —tonight. PLAYBILL “"°"#« short shift to chronologically short-changed February, PLavnoy Is pleasure packed the month ed by the matal days of Wa Lincoln snl (appropriately this leap year) Susan B. Anthon ‘woman sullragist would be proud, indeed, fof cover gist (her third appear: thia Maddox. Our Assi Faitor, now in her fifth year here at ruaysoy, has garnered many a rom readers as the git] they ou Ike to be alone with The PLavnoy puppet ‘nothings into Miss Maddox’ ear imagina- tively indicates that this month's edi torial horn of plenty has a musical Hilt to it. Mong with the results of our cighth annual Jaze Poll (accompanied by an over-theshoulder look at the past year’s jaz activities by eininent musi ‘ologist Nat Hental), we offer a Playboy Panel on Jazz Today and Tomorrow, incisively moderated by critic Hentoff, that should dispel once and for all the baseless putdown sent Sounds of “61, together of the Litest in his year cust tailored to the size of your pad. Herc, 100, is The Playboy LP Library, a listing fof 800 of our favorite record delivers a noteworthy parody of the jue Tiner-note meshugans in vshich the crn isto ill up the area back ing the fromt cover wi quasiinformational, pscudorbip, bh verbi Aecp insights, Author Ransom, who holds a Ph.D. in English philology, spent ten years ax an editor of books om med- sl subjects. His sealpeling fof lincrnote jaz jargon should leave the reader in stitches. One of the most additions to the exavnoy staf, As sistant Editor Jack Shaskey, who has eon. tuibuted to our pages in the past, has as his fins offering since making our mast Dread, a punny Valentine, Lady Luck and the Lyricist. Yn it, sparctime composes lyricist Sharkey (he's writing a Broadway musical, only Broadway doesn’t know bout it yet) describes how faanous sog- ‘smiths stumbled aeress their best lines. February’ fictive bonanza includes an ‘old friend, one of Blighty’s blithest spis- its, P. G, Wodehouse. He's back with us, itably unraveling Part I of a vafish new two-part novel of comic desperation born of a struggle over an inheritance, Biljen’s Millions. Comedy in a different vein, suffuses Jack Raphael Guess! Where Dows It Say in Freud that a Shyink Has lo Be Polite?; bis anc verbal dul be- ud his whit vist is etched in an acid bath of lercurrents, Author Guss, a toiler in Hollywood's TV asociate producer and principal scripter ‘campusbased televisio series, There are no laughs, however, i The Nightmare, by Enned novelise Pat Frank, pending international holocaust Nighonare bas been penned by Well versed in such matters, Author of Mr, Adam, Alas, Babylon and the nou fiction How to Survive the H-Bomb— and Why, Pat Frank is a consuluant to the Delense Department. No less emi- foveen_a Negro patient a payel nent in his own ficld, Murray Teigh Bloom, founder of the Society of Maga- zine Writers, has eontributed to almost every leading publication in the US, and considers himself one of the work's lead- 1g “collectors” of insginative criminals, a covey of whom fonn the theme for his ial rraxuoy endeavor, The Money- grabbers ing. piciorials, past, pre fat hore and abroad, are sparklingly sprinkled throughout this ise: I Brat with Heckel, x rollicking. between-the- scenes and beeween-the sheets. boudoir romp with Richard Turton, Peter O'Toole and sensational Gallie gamine, Veronique Vendell; Playmates Revisited = 1954, 4 richly rewarding reprise of gatefold girls from rLaynoy's first year: and Mamie, in which the famed frame fof Mamic Van Doren is displayed on ‘en sepos and wi Meanwhile, back at the magazine, our ‘own Shel Silverstein continues his care toonic tour, Silversiein's History of Ploy rcontered are the lile conscience, Lenny Bruce, in his How (0 Talk Dirty and Influence People. Alvo fon hand is a further installment of Editor Publisher Hugh M. Hefner's Playboy Philosophy. Filling out February's Inminows edi torial lineup: Nancy Jo Hooper, a mite for all setsons, Don Addis oll Symbolic Sex, and a pair of fresh- dex clothing features, The Hippen of Squares (dhe new look in pocket hsede Kkerchiets) and The Hide of Fashion, on ce garb for the guy about Jeather cee town, Withal, PLAYBOY. Stereo Sounds vol. II, no. 2— february, 1964 CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE DEAR PLAYSOY. e PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS lias PLAYBOY'S INTERNATIONAL DATEEOOK—trovel PATRICK CHASE 27 ‘THE PLAYBOY PANEL: JAZZ—TODAY AND TOMORROW—discursion 2» ‘THE PLAYBOY FORUM a THE PLAYBOY PHILOSOPHY—editoie! HUGH M. HEFNER 48 SILVERSTEIN'S HISTORY OF FLAYEOY—humer SHEL SUVEESTEIN 48 ‘THE 1964 PLAYBOY ALL-STARS—ierx NAT HEVIOH 59 ‘THE PLAYEOY LP LIBRARY—modern living 66 BIFFEN'S MILLIONS—novel FG. WODEHOUSE 70 JOE MEETS SAMtotie JAMES RANSOM 73 THE HIDE OF FASHION—ettie ROBERT L GREEN 7 WHERE DOES IT SAY IN FREUD? —teton JACK RAPHAEL GUSS 91 GEORGIA PEACH—pleyboy’s pleymete ofthe month 2 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES humor ‘THE MONEYORABERS—artcle MURRAY THIGH BLOOM 103 SOUNDS OF “64—modern living 10s SYMBOLIC SEX—hume ON A00Is 111 Mamie—pletortel na LADY LUCK AND THE LYRICIST—homer JACK SHARKEY 121 ANGHLIQUE's DELIGHTFUL DECEPTION—vibeld cassie 123 {THE HIPPEST OF SQUARES otic SOBERT L GREEN 128 HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE autobiography IENNY GUCE 126 PLAYMATES REVISITED —1954—plctrial 129 hivoit st. nerNen editor and publisher ‘A. @ srrctomshy associate publisher and editorial director ernie wALt art director editor vixcest 1 rayne pleture editor [JACK J. KESSIE mane FRANK DE NOMS, MUMEAY THIN, SAY HHREAN. HFLION was asinciate ellos Noman etsy fashion diver: asin "vie assocnte fashion editor: 1noMINs Nate food drink edileng varaice east tinsel editor: J. AGN COTY eOusulln Tilton: business © inane! Chants mEAuMoNt. siatat GETIMAS. FALL KRASSP SENG. Moun conttibating elores AMLESY ROWRAS Copy eel? SIAN AMBER Copy iors nein etna aunt. ea waa ii: Glammuatats asioriae pictnre efor: #OSSIE OM alsa pretive eit Mako atey cototeaa, roMrio rowan Iran: NULsas stl! photographers: HEXSE. AN siatinousat contributing plhotographers: war casbn indole syst rip aust annette a! director SOX misie, Jowstt wAcate sistant ent irc tors; ALON REAMANCH atl astanty E198 MADDON, taulant eartoot ed) fonts wastwo production nuagers FEKS HEARYiaassstan production manager » rlising director: JULES Kase cost adiriiing manage Auk mitdventern eaveritsing managers Jose currant Delt" adver ti Ing manager: NIUON FUCK promoiion divertor: bax c2ubax promotion art dinee tor eas mangers WANN owaN public roations manager aso ive Tavpiaien personnel director! paxet Mies fener seroice! Wart MOWAKIN subscription fulllment sahager; 14D0% Eruutas special projets; nonrat watsse business matager © civewlation director mn Kings Men After Shave {Welter osc AMINO VMTN cre mT Ina aod CHAR RON OMAN RCN ROSSA UE killed all those people and destroyed all those cities. rests aia LY USE: HCN Gc wen RE ah f Ski lesson: Point tips downhill. Bend knees. Go! Where? Straight to the nearest glass of Schlite. real gusto @& ina great light beer DEAR PLAYBOY EJ A00ress Ptavsoy MAGAZINE « 232 £. O10 St, CHICAGO, HLINOIS 6061 VIZ. VISIONS The three articles on hallucinogenic dnugs inthe Noveraber issue are the ost perceptive and sober considerations Of the pros and cons of these controver sial substances in the popular magarines that have come to my attention. Other similar articles, for the most part, and distorted, Walter H. Cl Professor of Psychology of Religion Andover Newton Theological School Massachusets Allow me to congratulate you on one of the most Keenly perceptive LSD studies that T have seen, ‘The accom plishments of Alpert and Leary have been underestimated. 1 think something more could be sid about the promise Cf hallucinogens with respect to frigicity In over 200 experimental cases last year, students given LSD had intercouse and reported, in almost every instance, a “heightened sense of unity." The only yuble was that afterward, alarm any of these young. men about 35 percent, almost a were men— came out with {eel reversed soxuality, ‘Most of the men were soon returned to normaley by a hot shower and several showings of Guadalcanal Diary. The sey- eval women involved were given The Second Sex to reat. K. Kenniston Boston, Massachusetts Congratulations on your threeartile coverage of LSD and the g Of experiential educa frcedom. Ree zines ha of LSD." praxnoy’s interpretation was the most thorough and accurate. Indeed, yours was the only attempt to make an objective appraisil of this new and com plex form of neurological energy. All of the other magazine picees (Time ex cepted) were written by staff writers oF ‘unknown journeymen assigned to turn ‘out a “danger” yarn, Only ruayvoy used antides by wellknown and sucessful authors (Aldous Huxley, Dan Wakefield, Alan Harrington) whose secure reputs tions allowed diem to write what they believed, Congratulations, 100, for Playboy's Philosophy. These days it seems that yours is almost dhe only attempt to speak ut for such basic human strivings as individual freedom, ff dollars are spent cach year to increase technological efficiency, external comfort and otherdirected conformity, iis in- creasingly diffeult to find a voice de int values of TE was o1ganized a year ago by scie contist: from Harvard and neighboring to encourage research in such taboo areas as voluntary expansion of ‘consciousness, prediction of ecstatic and religious states, development of the play- ful aspects of experience. In these gloomy times when “danger” and “fear” seem (© be the politically popular mottos, se consider Lavo’ a most happy and ap- propriate tite. We applaud your effective program to lighten and enlighten dhe human situation Richard Alpert, PhD. Timothy Leary, Ph.D. Ralph Metmer, Ph.D. International Federation for Internal Freedom Cambridge, Massichuserts Three cheers for PLavsoy for your i perceptive pieces on hal Iucinogenic drugs in your November read) and heard 0 nd bigoted tripe on T have had the opport my _seli-nowledge secds and Tam that an organizat bers have had similar revelations. Could you give me the address of the Interna onal Federation for Internal Freedom? Jean-Pierre Peri Garden Grove, Ca IEIF is hendquastered at 11 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MY SIN «a Most provocative perfume! LANVIN the test pene Prato, Purse size $3; Spray Mist $5; ‘Toilet Water from $3; (olus ex) 5 PLAYBOY 6 LABOR DISPUTE yiavsoy's November interview was quite a letdown from some of th cellent ones of the past. It revealed more of the interviewer than Hoffa. With hi premises showing, your man. displayed An amtilabor bias that was both crude and surprising for a magazine which has n such a hip stand in the feld of ‘men's apparel, drink mixing, in vtavnoy's lexicon — wis Vi extremely square. Fle sounded like vestigator for some Congressional Tabor” conmittce who hae a job to do. Pethaps he did, indirectly? Point: swizale- stick journalism and labor don't mis. ‘Jolin Sars Brooklyn, New York Thope Mz. Holla is not naive enough, to think the general public swalloseed that. Robert H, Kutz Meadville, Pennsylsania the Ptaynoy interviewer has ty to obtain a picture of an individual throu own words. In response to PLAYHO's Hoff ingest claily many of the more questionable aspects of his wlership, notably. the accu agement of the union. 1 seems to his PLAvHoY reader that the Justice Depart rment’s recent intensification of interest olla'sallains overdue. copies of this iste for all the Teamsiers wlio, if they get past the Nover Playmare. will be interested in what i leader had to say, oF rather, what he had not to say. Tent L. Barre ‘New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations Comell University Ithaca, New York GO NORTH, YOUNG MEN You've done it again, Three eager raves” for November's The Girls of Canada. Leave it (0 dhe PLAYHON stall to ture the beauty of the opposite sex! “The delighttul pies were enough to make le qui his job, run to his travel nil book passage north, Vince Cordano Madison, Wiscons Tt was with great satisfaction that 1 noted your discovery of the world’s finest collection of women, Canadians! We in nadla sometimes feel that you Amt ‘eans are not fully aware of Canada’s ex- iatence. The Girls of Canada cert proclaims our existence. May 1 alo add iat it is quite often a very pleasant existence, After all, whacdo you think we really do on those lon winter nights? ‘Trev. W. J. Percy Winnipeg, Manitoba FAUST FIGHT Thhave just fin Faust by W ber issue: a you my opinion: hed reading Bernie the Tenn in your Novem wld not wait t0 give Trash! mes E. Hannigan cinnati, Ohio William Tenn’s story, Bernie the Faust, is a real gasex. Ws the most en jovable and the most up-to-date — in fact, ahextholdate ~ exeapolation of the Faustus story Pve ever read. [vs a theme most writers have tackled ome way’ or an Other at one time or another, but Tenn's twipletwist treatment, with one gimmick topping anou then itsell being topped, tops anything since Marlowe. Gome to think of it, tops Marlowe, too, Bravo. Kit was a boy who's hard to top. Fredtic Brow Tucson, Arizona BRUCE OPHILES Ater reading Parts Tand 11 of Lenny Bruce's men sive up performing and take up serious writing as 4 cancer ‘This boy can write hall the alleged pro fessional writers under the table. He has great, great talent and PLavnoy is to be congratulated for printing his stall ‘Joe Bioaly Nev York, New York Our and the author's thanks to bright young writer Southern. What a crime not to get this kind of Bruce more olten. AM the chicken-Lat philosophy of a Harry Golden, the pore hoxtaphic poignance of Hemy Miller, and the descriptive genius of Durrell rolled into one. with humor yett 1 frankly was hung on his every word. I memorized several passages for retelling, (professionally, of course) and 1 went Dack in-memory and retospect 9 my childhiood where T encountered such & parallel in upbringing, character rela- fives and clichéd events that it was frightening! Being a champion of Lenny B., as he will readily admit i's oft difheult to ex plain 10 the averaye lay bistro goer why his brilliance onstage is taken up with IManctions of PURE GENIUS Devoid of vibrato, spartan in its simplicity, his playing is anartist’s eloquent statement about the world in which he lives. One critic called it “deathly in its purity?” Another described it as having “the virginal clarity of a Sistine choirboy.” Miles himself said: “Don’t write about the music. Tt spoaks for itself.” It does. You can hear itin his new album, Quiet Nights. Listen to the textured Brazil. ian rhythms of “Corcovado.” Or the sweet, pure sound of his horn on “Wait Till'You See Hor” and “Once Upon a Summertime.” Tt is pure art. MILES DAVIS ON COLUMBIA. RECORDS mMuILe: Davi oO ay Teer eny ‘ on PLAYBOY is //ae @) Have you heard this girl sing? “This is Naney Wilson. Sho is the most original popular singer performing today. The praise Naney has received from critics and public alike is ample proof. But listen to Nancy Wilson yoursolf. When she sings, you hear the sure and expressive voice of an accomplished singer. And you feel the moods and emations of fine blues singer. But more than that, you hear the fascinating way she blends her voice and her sensitivity into ‘new way of singing every kind of popular song, Whatever the album, whatever the song, from "When Sunny Gets Blue” to “Happy Talk™ to "Days of Wine and Roses? Nancy Wilson is new and different and exciting to listen to Listen to Nancy Wilson on Capitol, and you'll hear what we mean. Fora start, listen to these newest Nancy Wilson albums: (Cadel) the tees, various orgasmic outeries fro and Sophie Tucker's blatant al Puerto. Rican busboys But such is the Brucian way and so must he go. Lenny deals ir honest shock Tree form andl improvisit ‘but ofttimes his rambh a comedic t id he stim up ar exapes hat’s why is writings humor uungeney of that the —audienc Jk Lenny truly abhors, he his time to ponder, think again and lay down. pre written gold! Jack Carter Los Angeles, California Kudos from fellow comic Carter is certainly most welcome HUFF OVER HUERY ve just hnished reading William Iwersen’s article in the September issu Love, Death and the Hubby Imoge, While agree with shout 75 percent of loved his marvelous his viewpoint is slightly (ed. Since I was 1 midtcen wie ‘mother, [have been self supporting. Thave dorcns of friends like me. Tho Ihusband, he has all the will he spent and whenever 1 timidly suggest that ic is falling apart, he prumpily replies, “It sill runs, docsn'e 12" Well, barely. 1f T write a check for an unexplained 20 clams, there isa “session.” He is not extraordinary: he is quite average, T haven't a friend whose husband is not we boss of the ménage, and to ask those “boys” 0 run x lawnmower oF sweep out a garage oF dig a weed is the ‘utmost blaspliem dare ot_be rupeated. (They're very handy at yelling A the help, though, T've noticed getting the help to quit right in dhe dst of a “ctisi") And when you Jovingly buy them a gift at Christmas fl papers to sce And most of the suid in favor of that poor Hal Iversen weeps over. (One ba kunow, i receipt of his work-worn wile’s life insurance — 200,000 clams for which she paid out of money her mother left hher—rushed out and spent the whole dann business in one y Title floory, and thes, in exhaustion, re lined on his children for his support) Taylor Caldwell Bulfalo, New You PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS WE pla she progesive position ‘on trafic safety taken by the Ameri Automobile Association, which re- cently hailed. the rising hemlines of women's skirts and called for more of the sume. “Auto headlights,” explained a spokesntin, “readily pick up the swackings (oF bare legs of women pedestrians at night, Naturally, the move siocking oF ley exposed the easier it is for motorists 10 spot them and thas prevent an accident With this bit of invlligence in mind, we pulled out our slide rule and cime mp With the following computations one year in a given area there are X umber of nocturnal accidents involvi women pedestrians wearing knecleng dresses, then the new thigh igh skint exposing, siy, 80 more inches of keg (a three pereent of the averige wom total epidermis), should proportionately reduce the number of trathe accidents the sime period. To cary our ations further: TE all women in the sume area wore shorts (exposing ten percent more skin), the accident total ‘would be proportionately reduced 10 an nprecedented low. ‘The obvious con lusion does not require additional com [putation: one hundred percent hate les equals perfect safety records — all of whiels wo seem to substantiate the well-known asscrtion that you can prove anything with statistics Bargain hunters in search of service able conan UU merehandie are re ferred to the following notice in the Take Worth (Florida) Herald: “von ‘The ladies of the First Presbyterian on have discarded clothing of all They may be seen in the church fer si o'clock,” inal. basement any day The Philadelphia Bar Aswociation’s journal reports a prudish premarital di ective on a sign spotted in the eity’s Marriage License Ibineau, It reads: no. Members of the National Sign Watch: rs Society may also be interested in the following sightings which were reported to us recently. Sported above a well-used street door in the downtown Chicazo complex of Loyola University: enn fire door at Harvard. University: sor AS ACoeiDiHeD Hass; and on a fence ‘on Washington Island, Wisconsin: es Women’s fashion note: Cole of Cali: fornia has just unveiled a ultrsformn fitting onepiece hathing: suit designed with demriere décollctage and a ripper up the front. “Ia gir] hast caughe her man when vacation i drawing to a close," the seturer suggested In an interview with the fashion editor of the San Fran isco Chronicle, “she en gradnally lower the zipper a liude bit more cach day We can’t help wondering how nisny applicants responded to the following nd ac ina recent issue of York Times: "sxex to Pres. Advertising Agency. Must put out for bu A friend of ours got ewo Government communiqués the other day snd dropped by to show them to us. One was from the Post Office: it urged h ZIP numbers in addressing his n fother was from the Internal Revenue Service's District Director; it urged him to pay a tax bill that was du, but failed to provide a ZAP wwumber—or even a good old fashioned mber—in noting the adiess to which his remit tance should be sent (Form 17, in case there are any Feds around who would like to cheek). We suuyested to our bud dy that he send the snipped tax boyos the P.O. notice and the Post Office guys the unpaid tx notice, He conceded the idea made some sort of poctic good sense, promptly left our office with hi purpose and a properly subversive gleam in his eye How Times Have Changed Depart mont Literary Division: Afternoon Men, a 1981 novel by Britain's Anthony Ponce, published in this country for the first time i few months ago, contains this vintage piece of erotic prose, which we pass on for the posible interest of thase gentle readers for whom the carnal candor of contemporary fiction may have egw to pall: “Slowly, but very dekib cerately, the brood edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, into being, a vast Heath Robinson mecha mm, dually controlled by them and ring down Vistas of triteness. With 1 sort of heayy-fisted dexterity, che mu ly adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the mavoid able anticlimax wis at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the Ha. Add (0 ou list of Unlikely Couples: Marie and Woodrow Wilson, Lori and Admiral Nelon, Fift and Quai d'Orsay Lena and Flagel Horn, Julia Ward and James Wong Hove, Dean and Holland Rusk, Nelson and’ Mary Baker Eddy, Molly and Arthur Goldberg, atl that tor rid tcam, Elizabeth and Zachary Taylor Reassuring anatomical intelligence from the Ohio Department of Agricul ture’s weekly summary of news on the PLAYBOY 10 you can try it like this a WIDE ROLL-ON DEODORANT Double your protection with big, wide, man-sized Brake. Brake’s man-sized roller does twice the job, stroke for stroke, of little girl-sized roll-ons, Brake with the BIG roller gives the big protection a big man needs. Next time, buy Mennen BRAKE! pork market: “Butts showed the on advance and bellies held steady.” THEATER The Private Eor and The Public Fye arc a pair of short stories done up in d Jog, a crisp package from Peter Shaffer British author of Five Finger Exercise. The Private For isa sentimental kitchen fable about a shy clerk (Brian Bedford) who is devoted to music, his dashing, Iuddy (Barry Foster) who is devoted to ‘women, and the girl (Geraldine McEwan) whom the clerk brings home to sup per (cooked by his friend, the woll). ‘The Situation is old-ashioned, but. Shalfer ‘works some newlangled variations, and the actors are delightful. The Public Tye is a screwball cartoon about sn outrageously unprivate detective named who favors tan shoes, yellow tie. trench coat. raising, id yogurt. “This is one Of the few jobs where being nondescript fs am advantage.” he says sincerely. A vt has hited this gro- sight unscen, 10. shadow then guilty only of an abnormal n horror movies, but ow herself irresistibly drawn to the shoc—and no wonder, for as played with devilish hilarity by Barry Foster, Gristoforou is a mad, sad clown who is forced 10 live his private life in the public eye. At the Morowo, 217 West 5th Street Chips with Everathing begins liken English No Time for Sergeants. The draftees droop. into the b poral barks. The wie But gradually the play begins to cuvdle, until it is every bit ae bitter as Brecht. i Amold Wesker is taking herd swipe at Britain's rigid social st It is a protest. play ~ didactic theatrical. Wesker's Brit is the pescetime Royal Air Force. Pip (Gary Bond), the som of general, is trying to climb down from the upper ‘lass and mix with the masses, But the ses mock him, his accent and his aiss, while his superiors the R.A.F officers — indulge him. They know that. given enough time. and rope, Pip will ise to the proper level. As for Vi he scorns the officers and ties (0 save the soldiers, but he doesn't quite know hhow to go about it, "All you do is breed Dabies and cit chips. [potatoes] with xe tells hig bunkmates In the end, of course, Pip officer anda gentleman in spite of himscl. The last irony is God Save the Queen, The woops pass

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