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...Clifford Odets' latest play, The Country Girl, is reminiscent of his earlier works in that the old power and brilliance of action and dialogue has returned. Paul Kelly and Uta Hagen handle this play aboue a forgotten actor's return to stardom. Unlike the earliest Odets' stuff, however, this work has none of the social commentary the author is noted for; it gets along well without...
Walter Aikman was a wonderful Lord Chancellor last night; his voice is rich and his tongue facile. Clifford Lefebre was carefully ingenuous as Strephon, and Claire Wilson sung a polished Fairy Queen. From there on down the cast shaded off to the standard gulping of first-night amateur G & S productions, but the choruses were vigorous and the ensembles clear and accurate; Russell Ames' directing was largely responsible for the accuracy. The Canterbury Players are no D'Oyly Carts and Aikman is not Martyn Green (though he comes remarkably close), but their "Iolanthe" is fine...
...Country Girl (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brings back Odets, after more than ten years in the wasteland, to the land of the living. It by no means brings him back in triumph; even when his play throbs, it is not always with honest life, and by the end it looks footlighted and chalky. But it has passages of fierce feeling that only Odets could write, and characters that at moments are bitingly real...
Opening tonight is Clifford Odets' fine drama, The Country Girl (Lyceum, 45th S.), starring Paul Kelly and Uta Hagen...
...varsity harriers boast one of the best records in the East, with five straight victories. Ted Mearns, Yale captain, has been breaking records all season, and is backed by a strong team including Bob Johnson, Emery Reeves, Roland Garefalo, and Warren Clifford. If comparative scores mean anything, the Elis should win easily--they have never scored more than 20 points, and defeated Brown by 16. The Crimson lost to Brown, 34 to 45. Both beat Dartmouth by approximately the same score...