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...Leigh Rand's scenery utilized the theatre's facilities ingeniously. The first scene, aboard the ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...
...setting for the play, Will Steven Armstrong has designed a black backdrop with dim squares, in front of which are five rough-sculptured set-pieces of pipes, rods, and wire mesh (three of them movable) that admirably convey the wildness, ruggedness, grimness, and remote time of the tale. His costumes, too, are always apposite...
...Last year they won 51% of the market, to outsell the makers of traditional British toffee for the first time. Ads for chocolates look like U.S. cigarette commercials; the bosomy blonde, blossoming bower and babbling brook that spell menthol smokes for conditioned U.S. audiences are in England frequently a backdrop for a chocolate bar. "I like plain, simple things," coos one unidentified model in the ads. "Plain chinchillas. Simple sables. And plain chocolate." This kind of talk seems to suit plain old Cadbury's and Rowntree's, both of which were founded by devout Quakers. Cadbury Boss Paul...
...onto every bit of rubbish there is to hang onto in life-and I've thrown the good bits away"; "I don't want another martini, I've had enough to float Fire Island"; "Sleep, rest, relaxation-where can I buy those?" Her acting, against a backdrop of Old Flame Dirk Bogarde's flexing jaw muscles and travelogue shots of Olde England, may be the best of her career. The most revealing scenes are onstage at the Palladium. On opening night she stands in the wings, fingers snapping, as her rapport with the orchestra becomes almost...
Graham-White's set with a Klee backdrop was interesting and the lighting by Ming (of Mongo, no doubt) had some imaginative touches. It is a pity that a little more attention was not paid to the cast, particularly the supporting actors and the toughs, for without it, the play was not poignant and affecting, as intended, but off-color and downright silly...