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Southern Exposure (by Owen Crump; produced by Margo Jones, Tad Adoue & Manning Gurian) begins as a barn-door-broad spoof of those who inhabit and those who inspect the mortgaged old mansions of Natchez. Leading chatelaine-and character-is Penelope Mayweather (Betty Greene Little), a spinster who when not fluttering like a bird is secretly drinking like a fish. After a while the play shifts to farcical romance between an engaged Natchez belle and an enraged Yankee writer whose book Natchez has banned. But the satire keeps on recurring with the monotonous regularity of a lone rider on a merry...
...would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good as a hack...
Then, so suddenly it was frightening, the deep roll of naval gunfire, the swooshing rockets, the chatter of the 40-mm. guns, the crump of bombs, died down...
Broadway seemed determined to start the season off in high gear. Opening month last year saw only one production, but September 1950 will have five: James Bridie's long-run London hit Daphne Laureola, Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State with Celeste Holm, Owen Crump's Southern Exposure, Lesley Storm's Black Chiffon, another London import, and Drama Critic (The New Yorker) Wolcott Gibbs's Season...
...ridge south of Chonan, a bearded U.S. sergeant in a foxhole heard the ineffective crump of mortars behind him change to the sharper slam of 155-mm. Long Toms. "Boy," he said happily, "my morale...