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...Lady's Not For Burning will be brought to Broadway next fall by the Theatre Guild. A Phoenix Too Frequent, a one-acter, now rehearsing in New York for a late April opening, will be his first to reach...
With his hit shows The Medium and The Telephone (TIME, June 30, 1947), Gian-Carlo Menotti had already proved that he could sell pocket-sized opera to Broadway. Last week a first-night Broadway audience bought his first full three-acter, The Consul, and bravoed for more...
...notably funny in a Tarkington-like way, yet it remembers and records the balked, anarchic feelings, the tremulous tragicomedy of ending childhood. Unfortunately, it suffers after a while from being so much less a play than a mere picture of people. It would make an ideal long one-acter. As it stands, the second act repeats the mood of the first with somewhat diminished success, and the choppy third act resorts to melodrama with no success...
...short two-acter, Prostitute is Existentialist Sartre's blast at racism and reaction in the U.S. South (which he visited briefly in 1946). The play tells how Lizzie McKaye, a Northern prostitute new to a Southern town, is unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress...
...their first independent production (under J. Arthur Rank), they stuck to their highly successful formula; their adaptation of Coward's one-acter, Brief Encounter, was one of the top critical successes of the year - in both Britain and the U.S. They decided to make Great Expectations for two reasons: 1) it was about time to try something besides Noel Coward's work, and 2) Lean had read through the complete works of Dickens in search of movie material...