Jean Negulesco directed this cornball melodrama in ‘Scope, a multicharacter omnibus that at times suggets an urban Peyton Place, about young women trying to get ahead in the New York publishing world and encountering mainly sexnot to mention Hollywood’s punitive sexual morality of the period. Adapted from a Rona Jaffe novel; with Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Diane Baker, Martha Hyer, Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Robert Evans, and Louis Jourdan (1959). (JR)