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Show By LYV CONNELLY SOAP opera heroines are having their dog days lately more so than usual and that's saying quile a great deal since they seem to go through one crisis after another an-other ... We're thinking specifically speci-fically of "Valiant Lady". . . Now here is a woman who has fallen in love witii a pilot who has a wife in a mental institution . . . They plan for him to get a divorce (in-odentaUy, (in-odentaUy, apparently the author was unaware that you cannot divorce di-vorce mental patient) and then they are going to marry and live happily ever after . . . The only t.itch is that the wife proves most uncooperative and, after nine years, suddenly becomes well. This makes things a little difficult tut our heroes are up to the situation situa-tion . . . They now plan to get an apartment for husband and wife and he'll stay with her until she feels "secure" again and then he'll lower the boom by telling her he wants a divorce . . . This seems the only noble thing to do, they feel . . . Meanwhile, while the poor wife is childishly happy over her new life, her husband is sneaking Into the hall to try and kiss our human but not so valiant lady. ' This particular episode in the play is pretty distasteful . . . Perhaps Per-haps such things do happen but we don't like to think there Is nothing wrong with such seedy goings-on ... On the other hand, It would be hard to believe that a man and woman In love can see each other constantly without a show of emotion emo-tion . . . The author would have done everybody a big favor If he bad just moved husband and wife out of town for the time being . . . The principals would have suffered just as much from the separation but, of course, the situation would not have been quite so dramatic as it is now. . . , . . In fact, the poor "Valiant Lady" needs a new family and set of friends . . . She now has a greedy daughter, Indifferent son, grasping divorcee friend, frustrated old-maid old-maid frlfnl, telf-pltylng friend and a completely hapless fiance. |