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The Stage (September 1961)
THE STAGE IMPROVISATONS I VISITED again, latterly, the English Miss Shelagh Delaney's "A Taste of Honey," holding the stage with uncommon tenacity in this dropsical season, and drawing still, in...
The Stage (August 1961)
THE STAGE AT THE ALBEE THAT PEREMPTORY translation into a species of zoological curiosity which attends the possibility of every new talent-an affliction I can imagine as only less unnerving than...
The Stage (July 1961)
THE STAGE THE ROMANTIC AGONY IN THE SINUOUS and abstinent ceremony of Mr. Howard Hart's rendering—adaptation, translation, version, what you will: "Noontide" had surely its ground and substance in...
The Stage (July 1961)
THE STAGE MUSIC FOR A WHILE THE ASSUMPTION, wholly gratuitous, that I have regained a sufficient composure after the phenomenon of "Do Re Mi"-which entertainment, happy intelligence assures us, is...
The Stage (June 1961)
THE STAGE AN OBJECT OF VIRTUE THE INAUSPICIOUS promises of "Carnival!"- its earlier absolute existence as the film Lili, the recollection of what brutalities have often been imposed on just such...
The Stage (June 1961)
THE STAGE HAMLET AND HEDDA: NOW IT IS AN irony of our present theatrical moment that, though generous and affluent enough to offer "Hamlet" (at the Phoenix) and "Hedda Gabler" (at the Fourth...
The Stage (June 1961)
THE STAGE THE PROPER STUDY THE PHENOMENON of Mr. Morris West's novel of The Devil's Advocate-this ambitious theological substance coupled with so wide and various a popular esteem-on reflection...
The Stage (June 1961)
THE STAGE THE CONTEMPORARIES IF THE Mr. Hugh Wheeler of "Big Fish, Little Fish" (at the ANT A Playhouse) and the Tennessee Williams of "Period of Adjustment" but tentatively show virtue her own...
The Stage (April 1961)
THE STAGE THE LADY AND THE MYTH MRS. JEAN KERR has established so eminent a national celebrity of wit, on terms she has not always been reluctant to exploit, that it is a refreshment to find her...
The Stage (March 1961)
THE STAGE CONSPECTUS COMEDIE FRANCAISE: The House of Moliere amid the alien corn, exemplary in the geometric severity of Britannicus and the mathematical madness of he Dindon, audacious with its...
The Stage (March 1961)
THE STAGE ON NATIVE GROUNDS M R. STUART VAUGHAN and the Phoenix ensemble have given to Dion Boucicault's drame bourgeois of a century ago so striking a presence and so vivid a voice that it...
The Stage (March 1961)
Schell) with the wide variety of settlers who become their friends and neighbors in the Territory, and dropping the episodes in this century after Yancey walks out on Sabra. "Cimarron" has plenty...
The Stage (February 1961)
touch dull, the last half is so engrossing that one parts with this handsome production's fascinating characters with regret. Tr HE ENGLISH, who have a way of making a I charming film out of...
The Stage (December 1960)
THE STAGE CONSPECTUS ALL THE Way Home: The Agee ceremonial of mortality is divested by the very nature of theater of its lyrical extension and keening inward pressure, but so gravely austere in...
The Stage (December 1960)
THE STAGE THE SENSE OF POWER A GLIB AND witless blunder had me assuming, two weeks last, the prophetic stance—clearly, it would seem, an uncongenial posture: not for me the utterance sibylline—and...
The Stage (November 1960)
mercial trade association, fronting for professionals who really operate as small businessmen, paid on a piecework basis. Medicine of course hasn't been alone among the professions finding itself...
The Stage (November 1960)
THE STAGE STYLISTIC PERFECTIONS T HE JOSEPHINE of "Pinafore," who is "a captain's daughter," and Mlle. Irma, sweetly complaisant poule to the Parisian milieu, do make, indeed, an arresting pair....
The Stage (October 1960)
critic arguing, almost line by line, with another literary critic's writings on a third man's plays! Yet Empson is fresh, instructive, stimulating; we learn; Mr. Daiches' one-shot judgments, however...
The Stage (October 1960)
THE STAGE GALESBURG AND ARCADIA T WO HOURS traffic of Mr. Carl Sandburg's world—have you, to be sure, but world enough of your own and time—may offer a savory interlude, pungent with remembered...
The Stage (October 1960)
THE STAGE THE OVERREACHER T HE PROPHETIC silence of M. Marcel Marceau, his sinuous actuality of movement, may be seen—indeed heard, echoing—in an exhibition which tests more audaciously than any...
The Stage (June 1960)
Richard Wilson has succeeded in giving his picture esteem in 1928-is not, I venture to say, a work of any warmth and vitality. As grim as many of its incidents specific dramatic...
The Stage (April 1960)
was not very well planned to start with. Perhaps the script that Williams wrote with Meade Roberts was too long, or perhaps Director Sidney Lumet allowed the exposed footage to run too long; in...
The Stage (April 1960)
THE STAGE THE TONE OF TIME ~ I COULD not love thee, dear, so much, loved 1 I not money more." The voice is singular-unalterably Shavian--and its timbre has been pungently registered in the...
The Stage (April 1960)
writing. His duet for the competing ecclesiastics, with THE STAGE madrigal overtones, is...
The Stage (March 1960)
THE STAGE FORECAST C ALIGULA proposes that image of fate as a dreadful freedom which gave to the Camus con- science its tragic reverberation. And it is as con- science, surety~a moment in moral...
The Stage (March 1960)
last film (she died shortly after it was finished last year) isn't worthy of her talents. The best that can be said for it is that it's a pretty bit of fluff. Producer- director Stanley Donen must...
The Stage (February 1960)
wrong. It is difficult to see this without teelmg torn by the conflict of justice and self-preservation. And then there is another factor. Berliners not only want reunification passionately, they...
The Stage (January 1960)
THE SCREEN TIME, YOU OLD GYPSY MAN I T WASN'T the best cinema year or the worst, but thank goodness for the good foreign films that helped to spruce up American screens. I find in listing...
The Stage (January 1960)
THE STAGE "ONLY CONNECT . . ." T HE MOTIF of the educated heart--what Mr. E. M. Forster, in the epigraph to Howard's End I have chosen as title, sees as the aristocratic crown of human energy...
The Stage (December 1959)
a tender lover of Esther (Haya Harareet), the slave gift he freed, and as a convert to Christianity after he witnesses the Crucifixion. Although Stephen Boyd looks fine in the role of the...
The Stage (December 1959)
THE STAGE IMAGES N OTHING dominates so intensely in theater art as the image, persuading us--before words, conceptions, patterns~to the reality of its glamour, its high suffering or lucidity of...
The Stage (November 1959)
you can be THE ANSWER to a prayer! In her little dispensary on Guadalcanal Sister Joan prays for a small bottle of silver nitrate to prevent blindness in the new born babies. In Kerala, India,...
The Stage (November 1959)
owes them a living and a loving in "A Summer Place." Produced, directed and written by Delmar Daves from Sloan Wilson's novel, this slick, handsomely Technicolored, very lengthy (130 minutes) and...
The Stage (November 1959)
the key to the plot is in the flashbacks exposed as the various witnesses take the stand. It seems Sir Mark and his friend were in a German P.O.W. camp and escaped with another man, a struggling...
The Stage (October 1959)
I do not wish to discuss here the personal merits of the members, lay and Religious, of the secular insti- tutes. All I can say, humbly, as an observer who seeks to be objective on the religious...
The Stage (October 1959)
Brecht had apparently made an irrevocable choice. When he arrived in East Germany in October, 1948, the blockade was already four months old; the lines were drawn; the Cold War had begun. Still, a...
The Stage (August 1959)
THE STAGE THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM U NASSAILABLE and serene, secure in their peaceful kingdom where the lion will lie down with the lamb because, after all, you've got to be taught to hate, the...
The Stage (June 1959)
leader of a couple of decades ago. Beautifully produced by Jack Rose and well directed by Melville Shavelson (both of whom also wrote the screenplay with its semibiographical story about...
The Stage (May 1959)
Newman's behavior with that of his betters, it is at times, but without much depth, a sort of Philadelphia "Room at the Top." M UCH MORE melodramatic, but meaning to be so, is an English film...
The Stage (May 1959)
THE SCREEN NO VIEW, NO ROOM V ITTORIO DE SICA'S "The Roof," made several years ago but only now released in this country, has the same theme as "The Eighth Day of the Week." The main...
The Stage (May 1959)
more people to be entertained and informed. Cultural life, so far the preserve of restricted groups, must be Ol~ned to large numbers without turning one's back on the values of old. THE...
The Stage (April 1959)
THE SCREEN HAVE CAMERA, WILL TRAVEL W HILE INTERNATIONAL film making and the widely-traveled camera sound like good ideas, the films themselves do not always come up to expectations. Two new...
The Stage (April 1959)
ATHE STAGE THE WEATHERS OF THE HEART T HERE ARE, in all art, and notably the theater art, instances of a power which derives from mind, from large intimations and magnitudes of conception--and...
The Stage (April 1959)
Pennsylvania. Precautions could easily be taken in both places to get the opinion of several judges, on the economic and mental factors involved, or the health factors, before birth control would...
The Stage (April 1959)
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY of Windsor Canada's most southerly university, on the storied shores of the Detroit River, facing the automotive capital of the world. Catholic and co-educational; in its...
The Stage (March 1959)
THE STAGE THE MANDARIN PASSION IN THE "Rashomon," with its stiffened ceremonial texture, its archaic legend of violence and intent of harsh irony, with, not least of all, this variousness of...
The Stage (March 1959)
THE STAGE PERSONAL DISTINCTION MR. LEONARD SPIGELGASS' comedy of mature sentiment brings to the season an accustomed Oriental soy sauce, but beyond this, a flavor of grace as welcome as...
The Stage (March 1959)
THE STAGE THE CHEERFUL LOBOTOMY TO STUDENTS of the ways of the world, I would commend a therapeutic experience of Mr. Howard Nemerov's novel, The Homecoming Game, to be followed in shock by...
The Stage (February 1959)
THE STAGE OF HAMMERED GOLD AND GOLD ENAMELLING ABOUT THE EVENT of Sir John Gielgud in our theater of Shakespearean intent, one might invoke that tribute offered by Mr. Stark Young to the...
The Stage (February 1959)
THE STAGE LIFE AND THE DREAM IT IS curious that Chekhov in his early study "Ivanov," and Mr. S. N. Behrman, in his account of life's disproportion to the dream, "The Cold Wind and the Warm",...
The Stage (January 1959)
THE STAGE CUI BONO MR. ALEC COPPEL'S "The Gazebo," a comic melodrama of amiable negligibility, and "Third Best Sport," the negligible amiability with which Miss Celeste Holm is afflicted, are...
The Stage (January 1959)
438 THE STAGE THE IRISH PRESENCE THE ABRUPT withdrawal of Sean O'Casey's "The Shadow of a Gunman"—less a consequence, I fancy, of the newspaper strike than of a stubbornly intractable...
The Stage (January 1959)
THE STAGE THE LESSON Of THE MASTER TO THAT MEAGER chronicle of art's high world of concepts and of life translated itself into art, "The Disenchanted" must be said to add only a melancholy...
The Stage (January 1959)
THE STAGE TRAGEDY AND THE SAVAGED PIETIES AT THIS CRISIS of its fortunes, the cruel mischance of a newspaper strike has denied the Phoenix Theatre what would surely have been public praise of...
The Stage (December 1958)
316 THE STAGE INTERIM REPORT GOLDILOCKS: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerr's affectionate delight in period fancies is driven here to a pitch which rather extinguishes its gentle humors. The pleasure...
The Stage (December 1958)
THE STAGE THE THEATRICAL CHANCE AT "The World of Suzie Wong," bemused by lustrous silks and squalors, I was caught, as it were, in esthetic dishabille. The shock of the moment was comparable to...
The Stage (December 1958)
THE STAGE 'WE CALL IT TIRED BLOOD!" MR. SPEED LAMKIN'S variation on the domestic manners of Americans is a relentless exercise in kitsch, that art of the bogus which is a major enterprise of...
The Stage (November 1958)
THE STAGE THE VOICE OF THIS CALLING THOUGH it will have closed within the month, the Phoenix production of "The Family Reunion" has yet been the occasion of raising the venture on Second...
The Stage (November 1958)
awareness of a national entity--has its strongest roots in this group of people. Egyptians of the middle class are not likely to slaughter foreigners in the street. They might very...
The Stage (November 1958)
THE STAGE LORD ACTON IN ROME AT ONE TURBULENT passage in The Rivals, Mrs. Malaprop announces, "So, so, here's fine work, here's fine suicide, parricide, and simulation going on in the...
The Stage (November 1958)
THE STAGE THE MUSIC OF OLD MANNERS MR. HAROLD CLURMAN'S production of the last O'Neill play has about it—apart from other and less inevitable presences—an air of the supererogatory which is not to...
The Stage (October 1958)
THE STAGE A CAUTIONARY TALE MR. RICHARD NASH'S insistent parable of the pure in heart had behind it considerable resources of talent, persuasion and intent, not to mention fortune; yet the piece...
The Stage (October 1958)
THE STAGE THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE ABOUT THE EVENT of the Muscovite Moiseyev Dance Company in our theater, there was such bright zest and glow, such physical festivity, that no...
The Stage (October 1958)
THE STAGE THE LONELY CROWD M R. JEROME ROBBINS derives his singularity as an artist not least of all from his energies as a man, and with the advent of these brilliant inventions of...
The Stage (October 1958)
THE STAGE OF ALIEN WORLDS MISS MARTHA GRAHAM'S new and elaborate dance meditations on the Oresteia, which closed the last season with luster, and Mr. Jerome Robbins' jazz ritual of urban...
The Stage (September 1958)
by the British on the Dark Continent and showing it as it was in the 1890's, when an Irishman (Richard Todd) goes to join a friend on a farm in Central Africa. He finds his friend dead and the...
Rhetoric of Splendor (September 1958)
James Agee Rhetoric of Splendor by RICHARD HAYES H E DID, all seem agreed, a courtesy to life by being. Which is not, of course, to fail in lamentation of the riot and mischance of...
The Stage (August 1958)
THE STAGE THE NECESSITY OF DISINTEGRATION I T IS NOT an irrelevance of biography that Eugene Ionesco's first recorded publication was a miscellaneous volume titled simply, and with a...
The Stage (July 1958)
very complicated; but Director Brian Desmond Hurst never allows its intricacies to get in the way of the fast action. On the side of the young king is dashing and daring Louis Jourdan; and among...
The Stage (July 1958)
(from the novel by Joe David Brown), Delmer Daves' lively direction (especially of the two men) and Frank Ross' good production throughout all add up to a thoughtful movie that has the courage to...
The Stage (June 1958)
THE STAGE THE ROAD TO THE ISLES I KNOW a Galway lady, born and bred, who was taken once, by a son full of his own sentiment and romance, to Robert Flaherty's Man oS Aran, that documentary of...
The Stage (June 1958)
THE SCREEN BEAMISH BOY W ILL STOCKDALE, whose exploits in the peacetime Air Force delighted readers of Mac Hyman's book and viewers of Ira Levin's play, is now on hand to win more admirers in...
The Stage (May 1958)
worried about his middle age and home ties, feels he owes himself a last fling. Neither parent understands the children too well: Earl Holliman as the elder son, frustrated at home because he's...
The Stage (May 1958)
the neglect of Mass and the sacraments, there yet remains a fundamental spirit of "I am a Catholic; our nation is Catholic." It is uncanny, in view of the socio-historical realities, how the...
The Stage (May 1958)
perhaps some of the flatness of the film is due to the fact that the story does not follow through to Wouk's conclusion. Ending abruptly when Marjorie sees Noel for the shallow playboy he really...
The Stage (May 1958)
THE SCREEN NO BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ S TAGE-STRUCK girl comes to New York, struggles for recognition and suddenly rises to the heights when the star walks out on a show and she takes over the...
The Stage (April 1958)
THE STAGE THIEVES' CARNIVAL T HE SINGULARITY of Edwin Juspas Mayer's "Children of Darkness," to which Mr. Jose Quintero and the Circle in the Square have lately turned their attention, lies in...
The Stage (April 1958)
Croatia and Slovenia would certainly be called upon to assume an important role of leadership. In Sloveniau even in pre-World War I days--the Catholic clergy was influential m the nationalist...
The Stage (April 1958)
though victory is by no means as certain as it was before the mass firings, as always an effective unionbusting device. In any event, it is difficult to estimate whether victory or defeat will...
The Stage (March 1958)
THE STAGE A QUESTION OF REALITY II M R. WILLIAM INGE, with "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (at the Music Box) and Mr. Morton Wishengrad, in "The Rope Dancers" (at the Henry Miller), would...
The Stage (March 1958)
In a period when there is little ,community of moral and religious values the individual's hypersensitivity to the expectations others ,have of him (which include their expectation that he will...
The Stage (March 1958)
were it not so ominous. Each movement is trying to absorb the other. Those who have faith that love will ultimately conquer all will probably give the edge to Bhave. But students of Communist...
The Stage (February 1958)
THE STAGE THE DISGUISES OF LOVE I T IS AN IRONY of Mr. Roy Lawler's bitter comedy, and one indeed which its disabused author .might relish, that "Summer of the 17th Doll" (at the Coronet) may...
The Stage (February 1958)
Mario Lanza, looking a bit thinner .and singing at his best, gives out with a plethora of numbers ranging from grand opera to modern tunes, and he is frequently joined by various members of the...
The Stage (January 1958)
throughout his work there are ,these entries that seem to have slipped from a poet's notebooks into his prose volumes, volumes whose publication has tended to eclipse temporarily ..the poet...
The Stage (January 1958)
THE STAGE THE FIELD OF VANITY W YCHERLY'S randy farce of instinct, "The Country Wife," has held its place in the English repertory for very little short of three centuries: a security of grasp...
The Stage (December 1957)
c ARL DREYER, the famous Danish film maker who is known in this country mainly for two movies, the silent and memorable "Passion of Joan of Arc" and the later "Day of Wrath" (about...
The Stage (December 1957)
much for him, Brando's acting changes. He becomes less stylized, more quiet and thoughtful. Perhaps this is what Director Joshua Logan had in mind to indicate the growth from petulant boy to man....
The Stage (November 1957)
which advertisers, producers and politicians cater, and these impulses are largely non-rational. But they are neither all-powerful, nor the creation of clever advertising men. "The intellect is . ....
The Stage (November 1957)
nor musicians, nor schoolmistresses, nor authoresses, nor superiors." N OT LONG after the Rule was validated, Cardinal Wiseman died. His death wish might have been his epitaph: "Do not let a...
The Stage (November 1957)
THE STAGE THE DISTINGUISHED THING I N iTS RHETORICAL authority and investiture, the security with which it imposes large and resonant motifs, and above all, the occasions it permits for...
The Stage (August 1957)
THE STAGE THE IMAGE AND THE SEARCH IT IS THE ironic virtue of "A Moon for the Misbegotten" to remind us of the claims not only of piety, but of art. Eugene O'Neill's last play arrived at a...
The Stage (June 1957)
278 THE STAGE THEATER AS PARADE THE PEREMPTORY withdrawal of Mr. Norman Ginsbury's period piece, "The First Gentleman" (closed at the Belasco) was a commentary, not unjust, on the...
The Stage (May 1957)
THE STAGE A CAT MAY LOOK AT A COCKROACH IN THE RECESSES of my memory, the figures of archy and mehitabel move with a special grace. Him, my instinct, bred willy-nilly, recognized at once: he...
The Stage (May 1957)
THE STAGE THE MATHEMATICS OF FARCE IN ONE OF those ferocious exaltations which attended the ordeal of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was seized with the vision of "a book about nothing at all, a...
The Stage (April 1957)
THE STAGE THE LESSON OF PLEASURE THE REVIVAL of "Brigadoon," which has much stirred the season's musical lethargy, will be offered for three weeks more at the Adelphi, and it would be invidious...
The Stage (April 1957)
THE STAGE THE TRAGIC PRETENSION THE AUTHORITY to which Tennessee Williams aspires in "Orpheus Descending" is visibly that of tragic statement, for in no other of his plays is the complexity of...
The Stage (April 1957)
THE STAGE THE SEASON'S PLENTY SOME OF THE season's recent offerings, fuller comment to follow "The Duchess of Malfi" (at the Phoenix) Webster's notorious tragedy of blood, rmsed of its smoky...
The Stage (April 1957)
THE STAGE THE LILLIE AND THE FOLLY THE AGE OF Ziegfeld understood at once the ideas of order and of luxury. After it, perhaps, the deluge, but for a moment, this creamy, Monde and vaporous...
The Stage (March 1957)
THE STAGE FOUR VERSIONS OF COMEDY IN The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean, his brilliant demonstration of the philosophic essence of comedy, Mr. Albert Cook charts the course of human experience...
The Stage (March 1957)
THE STAGE MISS BANKHEAD vs. HENRY JAMES MISS TALLULAH Bankhead's late adventure in the Jamesian climate was marked by a note of giddy pathos not without precedent in our experience. The artist as...
The Stage (March 1957)
THE STAGE A NOVELIST'S THEATER THE IMAGINATION is open and flexible in Mr. Graham Greene's new play, the flush of life altogether richer-void almost of that private insistence or collusion which...
The Stage (March 1957)
THE STAGE THE ILLUSION OF SERIOUSNESS IT IS difficult to know what intention has prompted Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Goetz to fashion "The Hidden River" to theatrical uses; it is even harder to discern...
The Stage (February 1957)
THE STAGE THE CLIMATE OF ILLYRIA THE SHAKESPEARWRIGHTS, an ensemble whose work I have insufficiently noted, are offering for a limited engagement in the chapel of St. Ignatius Church their spirited...
The Stage (February 1957)
THE STAGE THE EGOTISTICAL SUBLIME I SHALL have nothing to add to the rippling controversy over Mr. Arthur Laurents' new play; my sentiment is with the majority opinion which finds "A Clearing in the...
The Stage (February 1957)
THE STAGE A REQUIEM FOR MORTALITY A WIND OF time sifts the world of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," soughing darkly in its claustral parlors, making a tragic music of attrition and loss which...
The Stage (January 1957)
THE STAGE VALEDICTORY MR. ROBERT Sherwood's posthumous comedy, mounted by The Playwrights' Company in a production of considerable opulence, is a pallid conceit provoked by the legend of Mrs. Robert...
The Stage (January 1957)
THE STAGE MUSICAL NOTES MR. AL CAPP'S Dogpatch fantasies of innocence and experience have not been translated into the Broadway idiom without pain: "Li'l Abner" (at the St. James) has diminished in...
The Stage (January 1957)
THE STAGE I REMEMBER MAMA, OR SOMEBODY LIKE THE rich, the family is always with us: aggressively present in literature as it is in life. The Greeks recognized this: Oedipus is incestuous, and...
The Stage (December 1956)
THE STAGE MR. BERNSTEIN CULTIVATES HIS GARDEN VOLTAIRE'S Candide moves through its intricate dance of chaos-the mutilations and autos da fe, the venal skein of duplicity and vice and ineradicable...
The Stage (December 1956)
THE STAGE A MUSIC OF IDEAS THE PHRASE is Mr. Edmund Wilson's, drawn from his stringent consideration of Bernard Shaw at Eighty, and to which I would append only the corollary, a music of morality...
The Stage (December 1956)
THE STAGE A SHAKESPEARE ENSEMBLE THE CORDIAL but muted pleasure to which the Old Vic Company has opened its second New York engagement in a decade is in pointed contrast to the public gala of that...
The Stage (November 1956)
THE STAGE MR. RATTIGAN AND AUNT EDNA IT IS STARTLING to realize that Mr. Terence Rattigan, so lately but a distinguished hand with the pastry, now wears the mantle of first playwright of the...
The Stage (November 1956)
THE STAGE NINE PLAYS IN HASTE, and a tangle of personal pressure, herewith succinctly the season's plenty thus far. I will begin fuller comment with next week's issue. "The Apple Cart": Mr....
The Stage (November 1956)
THE STAGE A MODERN MORALITY MR. CHRISTOPHER FRY'S Canterbury Festival play, "Thor, With Angels," is neither rich nor complex-arrested constantly by a heavy embossing of language, the promiscuous...
The Stage (November 1956)
THE STAGE THE DEBUTANTE SLOUCH IT WOULD be mollifying to assume that Mr. William Douglas Home's pastel comedy has suffered a sea change in transatlantic passage. I suspect, however, with alarm,...
The Stage (October 1956)
THE STAGE A PLAY FOR ACTORS IN "The Loud Red Patrick," a fervent, mechanized comedy drawn from Miss Ruth McKenney's domestic remembrance of things past, the talents of Mr. Arthur Kennedy and Mr....
The Stage (October 1956)
THE STAGE THE POSITION OF SHAW THE FAILURE of the Cambridge Drama Festival production to impose the intellectual passion and piety of Shaw's "Saint Joan" is in no way shared by Miss Siobhan McKenna....
The Stage (September 1956)
THE STAGE THE MAKING OF AMERICANS I N HIS handsome introduction to the volume of Gertrude Stein's Last Operas and Plays, Mr. Carl Van Vechten underlines the unique formal conception which...
Books (September 1956)
BOOKS On Mary McCarthy's Advance to Farther Frontiers SIGHTS AND SPECTACLES. By Mary McCarthy. Farrar, Straus. $3.50. By RICHARD HAYES M ISS MARY McCarthy, whose disenchantment is private...
The Stage (August 1956)
THE STAGE PASSION AND SOCIETY I N THE middle range of the Shakespearean canon is a darkly potent and most disquieting play, "Measure for Measure." Out of favor with earlier generations, its...
The Stage (August 1956)
THE STAGE WAITING FOR HICKEY MR. ALFRED Kazin has lately written in his handsome tribute to Dreiser, "It was not art he worked with but knowledge, some new and secret knowledge. There is an...
The Stage (July 1956)
THE STAGE FUN AND GAMES THE MUSICAL revue presents to criticism a vexing problem which does not end with its odious spelling. For of all the contemporary forms of theater, none seeks so...
The Stage (June 1956)
THE STAGE NOTES AND COMMENTS C HARLOTTE RAE'S is the brightest of the eight shining morning faces glowing saliently in "The Littlest Revue" (at the Phoenix). Miss Rae is a young lady who has...
The Stage (June 1956)
THE STAGE DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHAT A TANGLE of deadwood has thickly overgrown Mr. Frank Loesser's new musical! One would think professional men of the theater might realize that only on the...
The Stage (May 1956)
THE STAGE NOTHING THEY COME before us, Mr. Samuel Beckett's tatterdemalion wayfarers, caked with the dust of nothingness: sour and smelly, down at the heel though not at the mouth; abused by...
The Stage (May 1956)
THE STAGE DISSENT I AM vexed and baffled at having to pass so harsh a judgment on two theatrical occasions which have drawn, elsewhere, a distinguished press. The first of these is Mr. Norman...
The Stage (April 1956)
THE STAGE THE BEAUTIFUL GALATEA pYGMALION, so Ovid tells us in Mr. Rolfe Humphries' translation of the gentle Metamorphoses, . . . . made, with marvelous art, an ivory statue, As white as...
The Stage (April 1956)
THE STAGE THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT T HE INTERIOR world of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya is of a difficult and troubling beauty. Its external profile solicits us with the images of familiar languor:...
The Stage (April 1956)
THE STAGE A SOUTHERN FICTION M ISS Endora Welty's fable of the unreconstructed South, "The Ponder Heart," has a ~iveliness and witty thrust not common to the work with .which thi:s novelist...
The Stage (March 1956)
THE STAGE DEMOCRATIC VISTAS T HE IMMEDIATE dilemma posed by Mr. Paddy Chayefsky's play "The Middle of the Night" is the difficulty of reconciling its negligible indifference--one might almost...
The Stage (March 1956)
THE STAGE A LADY OF QUALITY M ISS ENID BAGNOLD, whose play "The Chalk Garden" is flourishing with an ample grace at the Barrymore, has seemed always to me an unacknowledged mistress of English...
The Stage (March 1956)
THE STAGE KINGS AND DESPERATE MEN ''TAMBURLAINE the Great," Marlowe's time-defying Tartar, broke a lance lately on the indolence of Broadway: a sad, diminished fate for one who rode, a king, in...
The Stage (March 1956)
THE STAGE CITIZEN WELLES I DO NOT belong to the generation for which Mr. Orson Welles appears to have been a traumatic experience, and hence I was able to approach his production of "King...
The Stage (February 1956)
THE STAGE OF THIS TIME, OF THAT PLACE FALLEN ANGELS," the melodrama "Time Limit" by the Messrs. Denker and Berkey, and Mr. Theodore Apstein's "The Innkeepers" are period pieces saturated in...
The Stage (February 1956)
THE STAGE PIRANDELLO O F THE four great dramatists who have given us the most profound versions of modern life in histrionic terms--Ibsen and Shaw, Pirandello, Chekhov--Pirandello alone has...
The Stage (February 1956)
THE STAGE NORTH AND SOUTH T HE Circle in the Square has revived "Cradle Song," the tenderly austere drama of conventual life by the Spanish playwright Martinez Sierra, in a production...
The Stage (January 1956)
THE STAGE PRESTIDIGITATION T HE celebrated Mr. Alfred Lunt and his wife, Miss Lynn Fontanne, all their luster and high dazzle of craft no less fearfully intact, are back with an amiable tissue...
The Stage (January 1956)
THE STAGE THE MATCHMAKER A FTER a good dinner, and a better bottle of wine, Mr. Thornton Wilder's farce about marrying and being taken in marriage, "The Matchmaker," seems the quintessence of...
The Stage (January 1956)
THE STAGE DARKNESS AND DEVILS M R. Eddie Dowling's production of the Abbey Theatre success, "The Righteous Are Bold," by the Irish dramatist Frank Carney, is most distinguished and interesting...
The Stage (December 1955)
THE STAGE HELLO DOWN THERE[ H UYSMANS ~ la bas and Gorki rooting about in the lower depths are not a patch on our contemporary hagiographers of the seamier side. Consider Mr. Michael Gazzo...
The Stage (December 1955)
THE STAGE THE LARK "SOME nights, when I am feeling depressed," Jean Anouilh has written of Joan of Arc, "I try to be rational and I say: the situation-social, political and military--was ripe...
The Stage (December 1955)
THE STAGE IN DEFENSE OF FRIVOLITY T HE uses of comedy are various, and none more potent than the contemporary practice of displaying personali, ty draped with the meager habiliments of wit....
Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1955)
Critics' Choices for Christmas ELIZABETH BARTELME THESE are among the books I have most enjoyed during the past year: Marianne Moore's Predilections (Viking, $3.50), a collection of...
The Stage (December 1955)
THE STAGE THE CHERRY ORCHARD MR. DAVID ROSS' production of "The Cherry Orchard" at the Fourth Street Theatre is the most distinguished and variously beautiful rendering of Chekhov's dramatic...
The Stage (November 1955)
THE STAGE TIGER AT THE GATES T HE scene is Troy: not the windswept Homeric plains, burning under the vault of night with a thousand campfires, but Priam's holy citadel, which the dogs of war...
The Stage (November 1955)
THE STAGE THE BELLE OF ST. TRINIAN'S D O YOU not sometimes idly wonder, in the still of the night, whatever happens to girls who go to Cheltenham? Mr. Ronald Searle, of course, has already told...
The Stage (November 1955)
THE STAGE A HANDFUL OF DUST H EREWITH a week's chronicle, arranged in the order of ascending merit: Mr. George Axelrod's "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (at the Belasco) drearily takes a...
The Stage (November 1955)
THE STAGE "1 WANT MY CATHARSISF' T HE first of Mr. Arthur Miller's new plays is so uninterruptedly bad, and the second--though relieved occasionally with the note of pathos--so indisputably...
The Stage (October 1955)
THE STAGE SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE A WEEK of doomed adolescents, of the lost illusions and melancholy acedia of middle life, and the dark pathos of age. The innocent eye looks sagely...
The Stage (October 1955)
THE STAGE THE FRENCH LESSON T HE unique and various pleasures of MM. Marcel Marceau (at the Barrymore) and Maurice Chevalier (at the Lyceum) but embellish their strict dramatic relevance at...
The Stage (October 1955)
THE STAGE THE BOSTONIANS I SHALL not linger over the production of "Othello" which the Brattle Theatre of Cambridge lately mounted at the City Center: this was an occasion which offered, one...
The Stage (October 1955)
THE STAGE THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH M R. Thornton Wilder's millennial comedy remains the ]eu d'esprit of the contemporary repertoire. "The Skin of Our Teeth," with its fey, lyrical presence, its...
The Stage (September 1955)
THE STAGE C~T~U ~V-I[-~H_E Typewriter," the second production in 1 Miss Julie Bovasso's repertoire at the Tempo Playhouse, marks a recession from those plays of complex and enigmatic...
The Stage (August 1955)
THE STAGE THE AMERICAN STRATFORD I WOULD have wished, in this notice, to celebrate the dramatic achievement of the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut: to recognize and salute the...
The Stage (August 1955)
THE STAGE MORNING'S AT SEVEN AFTER sixteen years, Mr. Paul Osbom's comedy of the domestic manners of old age has still an undiminished force and troth of observation: singular praise when one...
The Stage (July 1955)
THE STAGE A SCHOOL FOR SHAKESPEARE M R. John Burrell is a sandy, sober Englishman of middle years and private charm and distinguished repute who has been engaged to direct the Academy of the...
The Stage (July 1955)
THE STAGE THE DRAMA AS DISGUST I N an essay which has yet to be published in this country, Mr. Lionel Trilling--writing of the enormous development of personality and selfconsciousness in the...
The Stage (July 1955)
THE STAGE THE MUSICAL. TEMPER I N this season of musical excellence, "Damn Yankees" (at the 46th Street Theater) has still a richness and pungency of stage life that cannot currently be bested....
The Stage (June 1955)
THE STAGE OUR AMERICAN COUSIN “I-NHERIT the Wind," the fictional gloss which | the Messrs. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. _ t Lee have imposed on the celebrated 'monkey trial' of the American...
The Stage (June 1955)
THE STAGE A MODEST PROPOSAL THE entertainment which the Messrs. Charles Bowden and Richard Barr are offering at the Playhouse--a small play by Tennessee Williams, a chamber opera by Leonard...
The Stage (June 1955)
THE STAGE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF A N equivocal power sustains Mr. Tennessee Williams' new play: the dramatist's craft is at its most supple and secure---the work has inescapable audacity and...
The Stage (May 1955)
THE STAGE THE RED AND THE BLACK ~-'~HIEVES' Carnival" is the first of Jean | Anouilh's piOces rosdes, the matrix, as it _ t were, of his vision: a quintessential statement. Its structure is...
The Stage (May 1955)
THE STAGE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE THE Merchant of Venice" has long wanted reconstitution. Thumbed fretfully by all of us in school--how wisely Shaw refused his work to the academic...
The Stage (May 1955)
THE STAGE IBSEN AND CHEKHOV MR. David Ross' current production of "The Three Sisters," and the recent mounting of Ibsen's "The Master Builder" at the Phoenix, have imposed on our negligent...
The Stage (April 1955)
THE STAGE THREE FOR TONIGHT M R. Paul Gregory's diversion--a most apt designation-is a musical evening with the strong tang of cabaret, bound into unity by nothing so much as good will and...
The Stage (April 1955)
THE STAGE THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH I T would seem that Mr. Christopher Fry's new play has, at its center, a place of resistance, a curious intransigence which no pressure can quicken into life....
The Stage (April 1955)
THE STAGE BUS STOP A VAUDEVILLE of personality, picturesque and vivid: thus might one suggest the flavor and quality of Mr. William Inge's new play. For in this bleached and seedy cafr, poised...
The Stage (April 1955)
THE STAGE SILK STOCKINGS L USTROUS and smooth, Cole Porter's stockings visibly enhance the season: not perhaps of the highest-bred silk, I would say--and with more than a thread of artfully...
The Stage (March 1955)
THE STAGE TWO STRIKES AND A FOUL T HE season proliferates occasions of terror: at the Barrymore, Joseph Hayes turns the screw again with a racy transcript of his novel, "The Desperate Hours."...
The Stage (March 1955)
THE STAGE THE IMMORTAL HUSBAND M R. James Merrill's play, which is receiving a fastidious production at the Theater de Lys, draws its wisdom and troubling beauty~ even, I would hazard the...
The Stage (March 1955)
THE STAGE THE EMPIRE OF SENTIMENT ~ A NASTASIA," by Guy Bolton out of MarA celle Manrette's French original, is a relic of the romantic theater, with its velvety ambiance of d~class~ European...
The Stage (February 1955)
THE STAGE VARIETY PLAIN and Fancy" (at the Mark Hellinger), V a musical portrait of the Amish, begins the week's various critical smorgasbord: a surprise, I note with some pleasure, for the...
The Stage (February 1955)
THE STAGE THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA NOT among the best plays," was Sir Desmond IN MacCarthy's verdict on the initial production; "a somewhat complicated story, which is made the vehicle of a great...
The Stage (February 1955)
THE STAGE THE FLOWERING PEACH M R. Clifford Odets' new play is a work of secular piety, imperfect and somewhat arid, but nonetheless, luminously touched with the imagination of reverence....
The Stage (February 1955)
THE STAGE THE SAINT OF BLEEC;KER STREET M R. Gian-Carlo Menotti's new opera is a contemporary document of much energy and some power, imposing itselfmin a production of great brilliance and...
The Stage (January 1955)
THE STAGE HOUSE OF FLOWERS M R. Truman Capote's scented fable, heavy with the fragrance of bougainvillea and hibiscus, unquestionably flourishes with a great and seductive beauty on the...
The Stage (January 1955)
THE STAGE PORTRAIT OF A LADY IT would be idle to abuse William Archibald's dramatization of the Henry James novel; the play sustained an uncommonly poor press--there was, as an example, the...
The Stage (January 1955)
THE STAGE APPEARANCE AND REALITY IT is, so Lionel Trilling tells us in one of his essays, the classic theme: "the old opposition between _9 . . what really is and what merely seems . ....
The Stage (December 1954)
THE STAGE THE BAD SEED THE late William March is enjoying, with Mr. Maxwell Anderson's adaptation of his last novel, an ironic celebrity denied him in life by a negligent public. "The Bad Seed"...
The Stage (December 1954)
THE STAGE THE LIVING ROOM G RAHAM Greene's play has closed after twentyodd performances--a curious failure, compounded of public apathy, critical boorishness, an indifferent production, and...
The Stage (December 1954)
THE STAGE TWO FOR THE MONEY A MEMBER of this happy breedhwas it Mr. Louis Kronenberger?---once suggested that the drama critic prepare for his evening task with a subtle marriage of weight and...
Critics' Choice for Christmas (December 1954)
Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...
The Stage (December 1954)
THE STAGE FORTUNE ON 48th STREET M R. Horton Foote's "The Traveling Lady" and "The Rainmaker" by Mr. N. Richard Nash are the curious fruit of television: until the recent closing of Mr. Foote's...
The Stage (November 1954)
THE STAGE PAN "OH , for an hour of Herod.)" cried Mr. Anthony Hope, swashbue_kling a path through the spongy felioities of "Peter Pan." Pity Anthony: he did not live to see Mr. Cyril Ritchard...
The Stage (November 1954)
THE STAGE SING ME NO LULLABY M R. Robert Ardrey's drama, which has just closed prematurely at the Phoenix, quite deserved its harsh and limiting public response. The new work seems to me to...
The Stage (November 1954)
THE STAGE SOME VARIETIES OF COMIC EXPERIENCE L ET us begin on an elementary level with Mr. Harry Kurnitz. His comedy "Reclining Figure" (at the Lyceum) slyly rakes the commercial world of high...
The Stage (October 1954)
THE STAGE THE BOY FRIEND A MEDITERRANEAN sun shines on "The Boy Friend," and from the terrace of the Villa Caprice, Madame Dubonnet's finishing school for girls (girls, you understand, are...
The Stage (October 1954)
THE STAGE THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR T HE Irish Mr. Walter Macken and the American Mr. Robert Anderson are severally concerned with the inbred miseries of the family relationship and their...
The Stage (October 1954)
THE STAGE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM H ERE is Mr. G. Wilson Knight in Principles of Shakespearian Productions: You see, there is so much meaning in Shakespeare's text that if you load the eye...
The Stage (October 1954)
THE STAGE DEAR CHARLES p ROCEEDING down the alphabetic arcade of meteorology, we arrive at a point of absolute frenzy: Hurricane Tallulah. Miss Bankhead's climatic affinities have, of course,...
The Stage (September 1954)
THE STAGE TWO MASTERPIECES I N the heat of a languid, dilatory summer, two plays have quickened to a positive theatrical life. At the Greenwich Mews Theatre (141 West 13th Street), an agreeable...
The Stage (June 1954)
THE STAGE THE SEA GULL T HE several pleasures of this mounting of the Chekhov drama do not, sadly, make for pleasure, and I must report the dilatory nature of the eve,ning at the Phoenix, its...
The Stage (May 1954)
THE STAGE THE MAGIC AND THE LOSS MR. Julian Funt's i~lay, which closed recently after a tepid reception, will hardly withstand the weight of heavy critical investigation: something pallid and...
The Stage (May 1954)
THE STAGE TWO COMEDIES WITHIN a fortnight, New York has seen two comedies characteristic of this time and place: pertinent illustrations of the retreats and advances, the defeats and...
The Stage (May 1954)
THE STAGE THE THREEPENNY OPERA M R. Louis Kronenberger is only the latest commentator to note a central truth about the American as artist: the fact that we are never so happy as when we are...
The Stage (April 1954)
THE STAGE THREE MIISICALS "THE Golden Apple," a new musical by John Latouche and Jerome Moross, has given more pleasure than any comparable event of the season: for which blessing, indeed, much...
The Stage (April 1954)
THE STAGE THE ARTISTS THEATRE M R. Robert Hivnor's comedy, "The Ticklish Acrobat"~a brief encounter with which was lately provided by the Artists Theatre~is a work of the deepest charm and...
The Stage (April 1954)
certain employees into resigning. A variation of this battle waged against the Bohlen appointment by the technique involves informing an employee that his three Senators was...
The Stage (March 1954)
Fortunately, the CIO is not so easily frightened. And right here I want to pay a tribute to Walter THE STAGE Reuther, whom Riesel once so lavishly praised and now just as lavishly...
The Stage (March 1954)
fidential Clerk," Eliot has rather attempted to realize THE STAGE one of his...
The Stage (March 1954)
What was the reaction of the Grandmaster? He laid low for a while, and at last report plans to transfer his THE STAGE activities to Madrid. To...
The Stage (February 1954)
prove that you are traitors to the Catholic cause, even though your intentions may be admirable enough. The only way to meet Communist violence is with military discipline, and if necessary,...
The Stage (February 1954)
THE SCREEN REAL LIVE PEOPLE I I F the trend toward biographical pictures continues its 1953 pace, the movies will polish off the great and near-great in no time and have to start...
The Stage (January 1954)
say. This, despite the fact that most Arab Christians do was carried out by private citizens. But no one in au- not today have access to the shrines in Israeli territory thority in Israel has...
The Stage (January 1954)
about all Israel's olive groves and half its citrus groves belong to the Arabs now classified as refugees. Israel has accepted some seven hundred thousand new immigrants since the refugees...
The Stage (January 1954)
THE STAGE JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON'S ALMANAC M M ISS Hermione Gingold and a deft young attendant, Mr. Orson Bean, are the plums in this Christmas pudding. She is the English revue...
The Stage (January 1954)
T T HE Hard Unionists, to put it briefly, lump to gether all those in a plant who are willing to fight. They believe that justice is not usually to be had un less you're willing to...
The Stage (December 1953)
THE STAGE THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC T T HE shadow of Cinderella falls long on the current season. Last week, it was the tithe and arresting Miss Margaret Sullavan; now the plump...
The Stage (December 1953)
THE STAGE SABRINA FAIR A FINE company has given "Sabrina Fair" so thin and hard a glaze of luxury that one is dismayed ---on scraping off the glamorous theatrical wax --to find the work itself...
The Stage (December 1953)
THE STAGE THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL M R. Harold Clurman, whose drama criticism provides one of the last patches of luster in the faltering Nation, has written so pointed and thoughtful an essay on...
The Stage (November 1953)
birth, as he does not, then the only possible and con- And this after years of propaganda. The Office meets sistent attitude is that of the Catholic Church. A rest- the same reluctance to use...
The Stage (November 1953)
etched in venom. In the zoo, these animals turn and rend THE STAGE each other cruelly,...
The Stage (October 1953)
I of THE STAGE TEA AND SYMPATHY IMPLICIT in Mr. Robert Anderson's title, with its limpid irony and quiet implication of sensibility, is the flavor and coloring of the season's first pal-...
The Stage (October 1953)
T WO further amendments struck me as ill-advised. One would have permitted employers to grant sole THE STAGE union jurisdiction over welfare funds. These fat funds are already proving...
The Stage (October 1953)
as part of the stage decor.) I cannot predict for THE STAGE "Take a Giant Step" any of the...
The Stage (October 1953)
kle. Most of them will probably go on smoldering in THE STAGE their own depravity,...
The Stage (October 1953)
THE STAGE ANNA RUSSELL'S LITTLE SHOW M ISS Anna Russell offers the melancholy spectacle of a small, sure talent exhausting itself in the service of a vulgar and meretricious idea. That would...
The Private Necessity (September 1953)
anomalie~ which, had I not seen, I could hardly have believed. To take only one example, fill recently there was, or perhaps even is now, a port where certain dispensations for the benefit of...
The Stage (July 1953)
THE STAGE A BACKWARD GLANCE OR the critic (or reviewer, or commentator, or however one designates practitioners of this align and maligning profession) a retrospective view of the Broadway...
The Stage (July 1953)
stomach his tactics, thought them futile, or lacked his courage. That day the Negro family moved in without disturbance. They did say that before moving they had visited the house one Sunday...
The Stage (June 1953)
THE STAGE POETS IN THE THEATER ~I'~HE figure of Merlin:" so has Mr. Cyril Con| noUy characterized the solitary and enchanted "---'posture of Dylan Thomas in the world of contemporary verse....
The Stage (June 1953)
to men with and without families can never yield the latter a "reasonable" standard of living. What is "reasonable" is always determined by social comparison as well as by biological needs: and...
The Stage (May 1953)
"I am too far away from Washington to speculate whether channels to the Secretary can be broken through the corporation farm lobby." Unfortunately, I am not close enough to Washington myself...
The Stage (May 1953)
director would never hesitate to accept a proposal from the most reactionary producer. Politics are simply ignored on both sides when films are made, and the political extremes somehow...
The Stage (May 1953)
THE STAGE BLEAK HOUSE I N the Dickens guise--frock coat and jabot, his august person decorated by the fantail beard, the white gantlets and inevitable scarlet boutonniere-Mr. Emlyn Williams...
The Stage (April 1953)
this May gains more than fifty per cent of all votes. The law automatically gives the winners a safe majority of sixty-five per cent in the parliament. In practice, this means that the...
The Stage (April 1953)
tions with his party, with Allied officials and with the government are much better than Schumacher's were. Whether it is his temperament or an outlook acquired during his years in Britain, where...
The Stage (March 1953)
have determined on the last, asserting by this choice a democratic freedom from the restraints and conventions of the formal operatic scheme. Yet what strikes one, even in so lustrous a...
The Stage (March 1953)
through the vocal gamut from A to---well, isn't one note enough for you? During the war, it was the custom for the infantry to pick, say, the girl you would most like to drive a tank over....
The Stage (March 1953)
theatre. Nonetheless, it would be fatuous to pretend that the lyric resources of our stage have not been in- creased by these provocative dramatic gestures. (At the Century.) MAGGIE A...
The Stage (March 1953)
THE STAGE THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES T HE interment of George Tabori's play, lately deceased at the Barrymore, was announced by Mr. Robert Whitehead and the Playwright's Company with a funereal...
The Stage (February 1953)
THE STAGE LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST THERE is a special charm, as Miss Mary McCarthy observed in a newspaper essay preceding last week's presentation of "Love's Labour's Lost," in having some of...
The Stage (January 1953)
THE STAGE TWO'S COMPANY T WO may be company, but three is rather a crowd in the musical revue Miss Bette Davis recently exposed at the Alvin. It is the audience which constitutes the...
The Stage (January 1953)
THE STAGE HAMLET STRIPPED of its lyrictsm and splendor, the Gallic "Hamlet" which Jean-Louis Barrault and his Company presented last week at the Ziegfeld had still a formidable power. It was...
The Stage (December 1952)
THE STAGE I'VE GOT SIXPENCE A N appalling week commenced with John van Druten's disastrous raid on the moral preserve. Mr. van Druten does not usually travel in such exalted paths; his proper...
The Stage (December 1952)
THE STAGE THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH MR. George Axelrod's scabrous title refers to that seasonal recklessness which, convention would assume, afflicts men about to enter on middle life. One such...
The Stage (December 1952)
THE STAGE THE RENAUD-BARRAULT COMPANY THE appearance of Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud and their Parisian Company, has proved to be a rare, an incandescent event. The pressure of their...
The Deep Blue Sea-The Millionairess (November 1952)
THE STAGE THE DEEP SLUE SEA MR. Francis Ferguson has likened contemporary playwrights to hunters with camera and flash bulbs in the depths of the Belgian Congo, seeking out, at rare intervals,...
My Darlin' AIDA-Dial M for Murder (November 1952)
THE STAGE MY DARUN' AIDA BENEATH the Spanish moss with which Lemuel Ayers has framed "My Darlin' Aida," and the lustrous silks and brocades in which he has dressed its company, lies an assertion...
Chartock's Gilbert and Sullivan-Faith and Prudence (November 1952)
It is precisely inanity and elation which make themselves felt in the passages between Martyn Green and Ella Halman. Both are veteran Savoyards; neither possesses a rich nor remarkable voice;...
The Time of the Cuckoo-Buttrio Square-The Gambler-Bernardine (November 1952)
THE STAGE THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO IN the Venetian pensione Arthur Laurents has created and peopled, in the moral experience which transpires there, and which Harold Clurman so artfully...
In any Language (October 1952)
THE STAGE IN ANY LANGUAGE IF nothing else, "In Any Language" does establish Miss Uta Hagen as a comic actress of charm and distinction. Her portrait of a declining Hollywood star on Roman...
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13 THE STAGE MR. PICKWICK MR. STANLEY YOUNG has fashioned his arrangement of "The Pickwick Papers" not out of Dickens' rich comic substance, but rather our ox the extravagant display of...
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ROBERT BARRAT.THE STAGE SEAGULLS OVER SORRENTO UGH HASTINGS' new play opened the season on an inauspicious note of dullness. Mr. Hastings' little melodrama has achieved a measure of success...
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