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Beekman Place, by Samuel Taylor, should have been a musical. It has an elegant set, no book, and precious few laughs. It is a drawing room comedy dusty with storage room drama. In the middle of Act I, the ingenue announces that she is pregnant. At the end of it, a wife (Leora Dana) discovers that during World War II her best friend (Arlene Francis) slipped with her husband (Fernand Gravet) under a billiard table. The wife starts packing her bags. Gravet gets grave. He is an ex-concert violinist wedded to his Stradivarius. They both seem to be made of fine wood. Arlene Francis blinks her eyes more often than David Brinkley, but his lines are wittier. Toward play's end, Playwright Taylor decides to go topical and involves the cast in a ban-the-bomb melee at the U.N. Plaza. They don't have to go that far to ban a bomb; they can picket the Morosco theater.

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