The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 5, 1955

Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus. His flat is...

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