Word: bagnold
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...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...
...Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone very forcefully amid the mountains of irrelevant society chatter which Novelist Bagnold has felt obliged to record. The Loved and Envied scatters its effect among too many characters, and despite a glossy prose surface often succumbs to lip-trembling sentimentality. Not all the wealthy, fading beauties in Novelist Bagnold's France are worth one little Velvet Brown...
...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...