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...BURNING GLASS by S.N. Behrman. 396 pages. Little, Brown...
...efforts to get abreast of 1968 jargon and sexual tolerance, Samuel Taylor continues to live in the past. It speaks, well for the past. Taylor's new play Avanti, the offspring of now-forgotten works by S. N. Behrman and Philip Barry, already holds its own against the best Broadway comedies current; with a little rewriting, and one much-altered performance, it could succeed on a more absolute level...
...chairs at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as a respected Swiss practitioner described his radical, jaw-splitting procedures for correcting severe malformations. When Zurich's Dr. Hugo Obwegeser had finished a presentation that took most of three days, Cornell Uni versity's Dr. Stanley Behrman stated flatly: "American oral surgeons have never been so impressed, and I think that all over the country they will try his methods...
...began its first season on the wrong foot, when its producers built Arthur Miller's After the Fall into a Broadway-type hit, and the play's female lead, Barbara Loden, into a Broadway star. Of the theatre's other productions, O'Neill's Marco Millions and S.N. Behrman's But for Whom Charlie were coolly received, and The Changeling was disastrous. Because of The Changeling, the Center's Board of Directors decided to fire Robert Whitehead, the theatre's artistic director. With him went Elia Kazan, the director, and Arthur Miller, who will withdraw After the Fall and Incident...
...Broadway frontiers was thus apparent at the beginning. The second choice, Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions, served mainly to display the panoramic flexibility of the Washington Square stage, a genuflection to physical plant rather than inner spirit. The third selection, S. N. Behrman's But For Whom Charlie, was like buying Broadway goods at a fire sale; Behrman is now 71 years old, and Charlie is, in fact, an old man's play, a drawing-room harangue about a great deal in the contemporary world that Behrman finds most offensive...