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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runs last fall. He stated at the time that it should not be lengthened, and was too honest a dramatist just to pad it out, as Tennessee Williams obviously did with Summer and Smoke. After the play failed, a re-examination led him to revise and expand it a bit; but the expansion into two acts, including a couple of important new scenes, adds only about ten minutes to the running time. The Wellesley company is giving the new version its public premiere. Both the play and the production are a marked improvement...
Marston Balch has directed a cast that has entered well enough into the spirit of the piece. The three principals have even managed to impart a third dimension to their roles: Jacquelyn Zollo as the Grandmother; Joyce White as Isabel; and Lake Bobbitt as Maurice. Though perhaps a bit young-looking for the role, Bobbitt sails through the evening with a dashing naturalness. And the whole production benefits from Thaddeus Gesek's handsome settings, including a wonderful multicolored spiked mobile for the enigmatically daft first...
...Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...
...basic melody in the old style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
...words later, the Companion was done, was published in 1938. Last week the ninth edition went to press for the second printing−an all-time world record for musical reference works. As for Author Scholes, he sat happily in his house in Oxford, wheezing a bit but looking almost spry enough to take a fling at the Can-Can: "A boisterous and latterly indecorous dance . . . Its exact nature is unknown to anyone connected with this Companion...