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This pioneering work, which profoundly influenced Bernard Shaw's Getting Married and Candida, is not a great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
...likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground for yeastlike fungi, especially one called Monilla (or Candida) albicans...
...last night's uninterrupted dress rehearsal, there was only one high point, one performer, one reason for watching Candida: that was Miss Cass. She was always Shaw's wise, strong woman, speaking the celebrated dogma with sweetness and humor. Particularly in the mashy last act is she at top form, supplying the pace which other performers and director David Green neglected. She seemed to have thought about her lines and her part, weighing the author's intent and then blending them into a spirit and charm which is irresistible...
...Marlon worked hard. In his first Broadway part, playing a 15-year-old in I Remember Mama, he struck the critics as merely "charming," but theater people began to take notice. "Incredibly good," exclaimed Director Robert Lewis, and the offers began to pour in. In Truckline Cafe ("quite effective"), Candida ("superb") and A Flag Is Born ("the bright, particular star"), Brando raised high hopes; and in A Streetcar Named Desire he fulfilled them...
...Class turned indoors to Boston theatres and night clubs with the winter season at hand: "Candida" came to town along with "The Miracle," which was hailed as the apogee of dramatic art, and "Abies Iris Rose" at the Castel Square Theatre, one of the eleven legitimate theatres in town. And the Cantagridgians were delighted with the news that a movie theatre would be constructed in the Square by the fall...