Theater: Soap Bubble

Take Her, She's Mine (by Phoebe and Henry Ephron) raises its curtain at 8:40 p.m., but it is really a late late show. The Ephrons are on furlough from screenwriting, but their script is cut from Hollywood family situation comedy and spliced to Hollywood campus frolic.

No one will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie...

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