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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES (Columbia). Winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the sleeper hit by New Playwright Frank D. Gilroy is written with precision, warmth, acute observation and unfailing honesty. The superb ensemble playing of Jack Albertson as the father, Irene Dailey as the mother, and Martin Sheen as their son is admirably recaptured in this album...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed blood letting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...play, he says, "is frankly autobiographical." The father (played by Jack Albertson, a vaudeville comic who had never before done a serious dramatic role and whose stunningly right performance is worth a visit in itself) is a coffee importer. Gilroy's father, now dead, was a coffee importer and one of the best tasters in the busi ness. As a youngster, Gilroy used to go down to Front Street and watch his father tasting coffee, noting how all the phonies present would form their own opinions from his father's grunts and grimaces...