Word: crochet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Doorstep" is "Tobacco Road" with a Louisiana accent, and without the filth. The former is annoying, and the latter leaves you without even anything to argue about. The result is a waste of the fine comedy sense of Louis Calhern, who plays the leading role of Commodore Crochet, and of the sensitive dramatic talent of Dorothy Gizh, here his over suffering wife...
...there's more than a little beauty in some of the Commodore's eye-raising views on life in the bayous. But they had little to start out with, in the form of material, and wound up with still less. Joy Geffen and Jeanne Perkins Smith, as the two Crochet daughters, and Jack Manning at the son, are effective and almost believable. But the play as a whole is a loss; it tries hard to be slight and unpretentious, and succeeds so well that for all practical purposes it might just as well never be seen. Mr. Shumlin will like...