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...Orleans celebrates its Vieux Carré with Dixieland bands ("old-style" like that of Papa Celestin, and such jazzed-up "new-style" as Sharkey Bonano's), and with a cooking program featuring chefs from Antoine's, Arnaud's, Galatoire...
Legend of Sarah (by James Gow & Arnaud d'Usseau; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) shows the serious-minded authors of Tomorrow the World and Deep Are the Roots having their first fling at comedy. The result is innocuous, but it is also tenuous and labored-the sort of play that could end virtually anywhere and never seems...
Among the not-so-well-known fellow travelers: Anthologist Ben Botkin; Playwright Arnaud (Deep Are the Roots) d'Usseau; Artists Philip Evergood,* Raphael Soyer and Max Weber; Pianist Ray Lev. Just over half were members of the Masses & Mainstream staff...
...capably acted, road company production, Frances Waller as Nevvy tends to hurry her lines, but offsets this drag on the total effect with one of the few natural Dixie accents. The players, however, only adequately do credit to the authors. Arnaud d'Ousseau and James Gow, whose pictures of common southern attitudes and catchwords are thoroughly authentic, and whose dramatic sense throws a red-hot moral coal into the lap of ordinary northerners...
Deep Are the Roots (by Arnaud d'Usseau & James Gow; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Ge"brge Heller) is a bad play that is yet worth seeing. Artistically it is crude; psychologically quite false. But as melodrama it proves lively theater, as social drama it provokes thought; and the production has much of the skill that is wanting in the play...