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spa * . - “ etn steer AB en i sitet es en a ees Mee nalts ile ' hig yedys_and his petition was granted. It was an appalling mis ae and oneI regret. - , . The play opened with an episode in a bordello, in which | one of the resident doves of sin was awarded to a visiting : hoodlum as a token of his colleagues’ esteem. The thug turned out to be a man of curious (and transient) rectitude, however, and one of his equerries slapped the tart to get her off his boss’ lap. - Well, for all her vile trade this girl didn’t like being cuffed around, see, and she vowed vengeance. She quickly arranged (by bestowing her tarnished favors on another - hoodlum) to have the chap with the ready fists machine- gunned. Thereafter there were a number of killings by gunfire, one gangster {fs sadistically beaten to a pulp (again a bit of vengeance arranged by the fallen woman), and this same hoodlum then has his tongue cut out, that he may ever “squeal” again, of course. : ee ee q 4 There ig more. The woman attempts (in terms unmig! itakably specific) to seduce the hero, who is a prohibitio: agent. But playing house with a prostitute is not this lad’ dish of tea and he scorns her advances. (This led me to hope she would stay in character by arranging to have him bumped off, but it did not work out that way.) Oh, retri- bution sets in for this precious package, all right, but not before most of the players are wallowing in their own gore. At the climax {a climax of egregious bad taste) this soiled pigeon is caught double-crossing the big guy and he is pre- paring to cut up her face so she will never again tempt morta! man when the cops bust in. The show was an unspeakable, shocking atrocity against ’ the human intellect and spirit. With all the skillful arts of the hucksters it peeled back part of the Jayer of civilization that mankind has constructed so painfully over so many ’ eenturies. ; , If our new frontier FCC won't dam this tide of TV sadism and filth, I'll just have to wish tough Tony luck, as much _ as IT deplore hig methods.