Dedicated Life

Wacs, or done something else that would have brought more important material into contact with her extraordinary sensibility. As it is, she is wasting a ten-inch gun on gnats, and paying off old scores by striking at people she might as well forget.

Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre, by Archie Binns in collaboration with Olive Kooken. 436 pp. New York: Crown Publishers. $5.00