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...Billy Budd" is built around an abstract moral theme and as such it differs greatly from the average Broadway plot-dominated production. The average American audience considers "Billy Budd" hard work. Hence its mixed reception on Broadway. The backers are counting on the intelligentsia, among whom the Brattle playgoers like to consider themselves, for the appreciation and financial support the production needs. After Tuesday's opening, both of these necessities seemed assured...
...plot itself is simple. It concerns a clash between Billy Budd, an impressed sailor in the frigate days of the British navy who represents extreme good, and evil John Claggart, master at arms. Billy seeks the friendship of the master of arms, and Claggart seeks Billy's destruction. Between them stands Captain Edward Vere, who, alone of the three can recognize both good and evil. When Billy hits and accidentally kills Claggart, it is Vere who must judge him. Billy has broken "the compromise between good and evil," and order must be restored. Law triumphs over justice and the Captain...
...Theater (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted...
What Made Buddy Run? Novelist Budd (The Disenchanted) Schulberg had somewhat the same story to tell. In 1937, he said, at the tender age of 23, he was lured into a Marxist study group. He wasn't really certain that he'd ever been an actual party member, and his disillusionment with the party came (at the tender age of 25) when his Communist pals tried to dictate the story line of his first novel, What Makes Sammy...
...play may be "Billy Budd," adapted from the Herman Melville novel by Robert Chapman, instructor in English, and Louis Coxe. It was presented on Broadway this past season. The organizations are now dickering for the rights...