Word: bagnold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...Gertie" is not, as the title might suggest, the latest in the interminable line of sugar-coated whimseys dealing with precocious teen-agers. It is, rather, a sophisticated comedy of modern manners, more reminiscent of Noel Coward than of Corliss Archer. Enid Bagnold's dry English wit rescues her new comedy-drama from the pitfalls of its situation and deftly transforms an apparently standard British household into a group of extraordinarily unstandard living people...
...play revolves around the arrival of a stuffy, beminked career woman and her mysterious male friend into the household. Miss Bagnold skillfully weaves their characters until they both develop differently from what was expected. The subtle relationships which arise between the various different personalities form the most important aspect of the play...
...Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
...theme closely like one explored six months ago in a slick first novel by Timothy Angus Jones, son of Novelist Bagnold and Sir Roderick Jones...