Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting to feel left behind by the world. His wife, Cora, argues with him about all the traditional things; their first act fight and third act reconciliation frame the play. They have an engaging son, Sonny, who hates people and collects pictures of movie stars, and a teen-age daughter, Reenie, who is afraid to be social. Cora's sister, Lottie, and Lottie's husband turn out to be rather joyless, too, under her veneer of exhilaration and his of complacency. By the end of the play, at least the first four characters have gone through some form of crisis...
...work." Arlene Francis puts Peter, 10, on camera because "I just like to have him with me. Some people don't want to go into their private lives, but I think we on TV belong to the public." Groucho Marx offers a more practical reason for having daughter Melinda, 11, as a guest: "She's not in my tax bracket. We can keep what she makes...
With three of its characters evoking Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, the play has also the three-pronged subject matter of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. An elderly, genteelly despotic Southern mother has badly hurt her daughter and her son-the daughter is an all-tied-up-in-knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect...
...farce moments can be entertaining and brightly cockeyed. The old maid daughter (well played by Martine Bartlett) is both amusing and touching. The son's outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story...
...enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father and daughter. The critics called her "a burned-out candle...