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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES but the theme is thorns in this fine new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains away the lives of people who live within the intimacy of the family without being intimate. The three actors, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen and Irene Dailey, are so nearly perfect that they must have been cast under a favorable sign of the zodiac...
...Subject Was Roses but the theme is thorns, the barbed bloodletting that drains away the lives of people who live within the intimacy of the family without being intimate. Ostensibly, the moment is an occasion of joy. Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen), son of John (Jack Albertson) and Nettie Cleary (Irene Dailey), has come home safe from World War II. Curt with one another, the parents both love the son and engage in a competition for his affections. But the boy has come back with a stubborn thirst to be his own man. In petty and profounder ways, things go wrong...
...intensity of feeling that Gilroy achieves in Roses is sometimes choked off by the drab, laconic, colloquial dialogue his characters use, and a few bursts of eloquence might have been risked to vary the tempo of speech. Whoever chose Sheen, Dailey and Albertson for their roles must have been working under a sign of the zodiac favorable to perfect casting, and Ulu Grosbard's direction belongs in the category of craft that conceals craft. In The Subject Was Roses, Broadway has that rarest of dramas, a play that dares to show its face, and not its heels, to reality...
...Albertson, 46, last week landed his Mohawk Airlines' twin-engined Convair smoothly and watched his 21 passengers debark. Then Albertson strolled to the terminal building-where he fell dead of a heart attack. His passengers could only count their blessings-and wonder what would have happened if Albertson had been stricken a few minutes earlier...
...JAMES H. ALBERTSON...