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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feckless here & there as a show, Mr. Roberts is virtually flawless as a production. Co-Author Logan has directed it brilliantly; everything is timed just right; every character and gesture tells. As Mr. Roberts, Henry Fonda makes his first Broadway performance in eleven years a quietly memorable one. William Harrigan as the captain, David Wayne as a not-too-bright ensign, and above all Robert Keith as a worldly ship's doctor, are in excellent form...
...Author Heggen brought his successful short novel to Logan last August, after deciding that he didn't like his own stage version. For three months they hacked away at it together. Says Logan: "Nothing could stop it. It got up on its two feet and walked by itself." More accurately, 6 ft.-1 in., 200-lb. Josh Logan shoved the play into shape...
Director-Co-Author Logan was born 39 years ago "on the paved side of Texarkana." At eight, he saw his first theatrical production-a morality play "full of handmaidens personifying things like Beauty, Youth and Modesty. I think what really got me was seeing Flattery enter through a mirror...
...lives in this book as a powerful, eloquent, ugly, passionate, courageous spokesman of the Revolution in the days before the Terror. The great moment that made him historic is scarcely more than an episode. His life was full of them. Author Antonina Vallentin (Leonardo da Vinci) has written a long, detailed work, half a psychological study, half an account of the Revolution, drawn with rough and scratchy pen strokes, all laid against a dark and ominous background that recalls Goya's grim drawings...
Secret Adviser. Such was the background and preparation of the man who, in a crisis, was called upon to save France. He nearly did it. Author Vallentin makes it very plain that in the last moments before the Terror there was nobody in the Assembly except Mirabeau who had the confidence of the people. He became a secret adviser of the king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips...