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...past four years Playwright Robert Ardrey has tried to please critics, has never quite managed it in the U. S. Last week unexpectedly he turned the trick in London. The play: Thunder Rock, which had fizzled sadly when the Group Theatre produced it in Manhattan...
Regarded as a pretty callow opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than...
...Cowboy and the Lady (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was written by Leo McCary, Frank R. Adams, Frederick Lonsdale, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Howard Estabrook, Robert Ardrey, Eddie Moran. John Emerson, Anita Loos, Frank Ryan, Gene Fowler, Robert Riskin, Richard Connell, Sonya Levien, and S. N. Behrman-in relays as their predecessors fell by the wayside...
Casey Jones (by Robert Ardrey; pro duced by The Group Theatre). The Sceneryless-Theatne Movement (Julius Caesar, The Cradle Will Rock, Our Toun) got a smack on the jaw last Saturday when the curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...
...current How To Get Tough About It (TIME, Feb. 21 ), Playwright Ardrey in Casey Jones shows talent not yet under control. He shuttles between comedy and tragedy, reality and make-believe, Hollywood and Provincetown...