Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second: U.S.-born Daniel K. Ludwig, who controls National Bulk Carriers and other lines...
David Wayne tries to restore some of the whimsey which Uncle Daniel lost in the transition from the short story to the play. He acts with an abandon very funny to watch, adopting a southern accent just sugary enough to be humorous without becoming cloying. His manner is full of comical inventions, except for some distracting gestures. But even Wayne, for all his talent, cannot make Daniel Ponder anything more than a pitiful, lost child...
...other actors get rather little chance to be funny. Una Merkel, as Uncle Daniel's niece, does her best for a character whom the playwrights have left somewhat vague. As the bride, Sarah Marshall gives an appropriate, if at times almost infuriating, impression of bottomless stupidity. The part of the prosecutor, a politician with flowing hair and flowing oratory, offers Will Greer some opportunity for comedy. Unfortunately, he overplays...
...sense, Greer's acting sums up the spirit of the production: too much of an only partially good thing. Fields and Chodrov have written a funny play but they have sacrificed the chance to make Daniel Ponder into a really appealing or meaningful human being in order to milk him for laughs. Their method is unscrupulous, and the result is not quite satisfactory...
...Word to the Audience. In London, Cambridge Archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel, 41, took his place as M.C. on a TV quiz show, studied the sheaf of poisoned arrows he was asking a panel of experts to identify, remarked moodily: "I should like to kill a few million people, and most of them would be viewers...