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...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commcdia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker and brood than curse and make up. In the intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells...
...firm hand that guides Lovely War is Joan Littlewood's, the musical's voice and mind are often Bertolt Brecht's. By decking her men and women in Pierrot and Pierrette outfits, she puts commedia dell'arte garb on the Brechtian notion that in the 20th century the individual is no longer a meaningful entity. It was Brecht, too, who recognized that a nostalgic song put in a satirical context could then be savored for its sentimentality even while it was being bitterly spoofed. Songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Keep the Home Fires Burning...
...Woman of San Nicolas. She is also a historical fact: an Indian girl, left behind when her tribe abandoned an islet off the California coast, who for almost 18 years (1835-53) subsisted there in solitude. She is furthermore the subject of a 1960 novel by Scott O'Dell. And she is now the heroine of this intelligent and tasteful little film, the very model of what children's pictures ought to be but seldom...
...overextended banks have failed lately. Last week the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced the collapse of the First State Bank of Dell City, Texas. Reason: an excess of bad loans. It was the third small bank failure for that reason this year...