Word: bagnold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chalk Garden. Transplanted from stage to screen, Enid Bagnold's witty, pitiless and elliptical high comedy yields only a withered bouquet of hearts and flowers. Made by Producer Ross Hunter, who customarily trafficks in Doris Daysies, the movie is all thumbs, none of them green...
Patently contrived, the plot gave Author Bagnold a framework on which to hang some illuminating asides about "the astonishment of life" and life's wasted possibilities. But Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes sticks doggedly to the substance of a story that was all shadows, revealing a sure instinct for the nonessential. In this version, Governess Kerr and Butler Mills are obviously made for each other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss...
...CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...
...Broadway THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Pérignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...
...what Playwright Bagnold, who is 74, meant to write about, but unwittingly, or so it seems, her play is about the youth complex. The notion of a woman of 70 setting out to find the "real me" would be ludicrous and pathetic if it were not camouflaged by Bagnold's word incense and Leighton's stage magic. What the Margaret Leighton character wants is not to accept the past but to erase it, to be 17 again with all its romantic second chances, or else to live where age enjoys the prestige of youth, symbolized by a mythical...