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Show f: . ' I I - I ( ;v , - 1 b if u u 4 yr-? K V si; SCENE FROM MOVIE An impartial Tony Franciosa listens to both sides as newlyweds Jane Fonda & Jim Hutton explain their marital difficulties in scene from "Period of Adjustment," at Rivoli Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Tennessee Williams in comedy hit at Rivoli Theater this weekend aware that he maarried her only to further his business career, is approaching the divorce di-vorce stage, and he could use a few tips himself. A Lawrence . Weingarten production "Period of Adjustment" Adjust-ment" was directed by George Roy Hill, who directed the original or-iginal stage play! Isobel Len-nart Len-nart wrote the screen adaptations. Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton form the laugh triumverate of "Period of Adjustment", Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer's screen version of Tennessee Williams' big stage hit and his first comedy which began a four night run Wed. nesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Rivoli. This story of the trials and tribulations of a pair of newlyweds new-lyweds whose disillusionment with married life begins even before the honeymoon is over has all the raciness of Tennessee Tenne-ssee Williams' popular works, but this time the famous playwright play-wright has mixed his tongue-in-cheek barbs with touches of tenderness and sympathy, all of which add up to a delightful delight-ful whole. The pert and attractive Miss Fonda plays Isabel, the nurse in a V. A. hospital who cures patient George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) just in time to marry him, ; But the submir ive George of the hospital bed is far from the domineering and grumpy husband who after af-ter a rainstorm lands Isabel soaking wet in a dirty and depressing de-pressing motel and whose ideal honeymoon supper is a hamburger in a roadside joint! Quarrels and recriminations lead George to look up his old buddy, Ralph (Tony Franciosa), Franci-osa), who married his boss's daughter, and from whom he hopes to get a few tips on What Makes Marriage Work. But Ralph's own marital status sta-tus with Dorthea, who is |