Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Byng trophy, given annually to the "most gentlemanly" player in the National Hockey League. Donated in 1924 by a purist hockey fan from England, it was won last year not by a Leaf but by "Toe" Blake of the Montreal Canadiens...
Christopher Blake--At the Plymouth. Moss Hart's first play since his wartime pageant, "Winged Victory,' and a very controversial drama it is. Reactions to it have varied all the way from a "shoo-in for the Pulitzer Prize" to "not a success," with many puzzled audiences unable to make up their their minds. It deals with the problem of divorce and leans heavily (some say too heavily) on dream sequences, with the crisis coming in the child's choice between his mother and father. At any rate, it is a theatrical experience of high order...
Hart has written a play of divorce, the crisis of which centers around the decision of the child, Christopher Blake, as to whether he will choose to live with his mother or with his father. The scenes between the mother and the father, played by Martha Sleeper and Shepperd Strudwick, and between the boy and each of his parents are very effective. All three of the principals are excellent, particularly the boy, Richard Tyler, who may be remembered as the urchin who boxed with Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's," and Hart has fashioned for them some...
...play or merely that Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying, the dreams are almost without exception extremely disagreeable. Hart's attempts to make the first pair of dreams child-like only ends in their being childish; his attempts...
...play, one-half of it, is fine and worth seeing. As for the other half, you might as well go to sleep along with Christopher Blake...