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This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-doc umented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose ex ploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
Come Back, Little Sheba (by William Inge; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a couple, married for 20 years, who should never have married at all. Doc had gotten Lola into trouble; afterwards the baby died, and the sexy, good-natured, empty-headed girl turned into a shiftless housewife, her mind on men, her thoughts in the past. Doc wound up not a doctor, but a chiropractor, and (until Alcoholics Anonymous took over) a drunk. His career blighted, his emotions blunted, he half sleepwalks through life. Then, discovering that their college-girl boarder is turning, like Lola, into...
...play tries hard to be honest, manages in places to be effective, has a fierce moment or two, as when at the end Doc clings for help, like a drowning man, to the wife who has made him drown. And as Lola and Doc, Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer prove a valiant acting team, bring a great deal that is human, perceptive, vivid to their roles...
...even a very interesting, play. It makes plain enough what it wants to do, but never actually does it, never communicates the awful internal bleeding of mismated lives, the blundering wastefulness of life itself. Possibly Lola is too shallow to allow of much probing. But the more complicated, frustrated Doc does need-to be probed. For one thing, is he the tragic victim of a single mistake, or a weak man almost bound to fail? Playwright Inge tends to substitute mere sympathy for insight, and to employ those little touches that, though meant to be telling, are just the worn...
...spare" time. His fellow doctors ''used to think I was a little cracked, but they've learned to tolerate me." He admits that his patients often have trouble when they try to read Poet Williams. Says a patient in one scrap of Williams' poems: "Geeze, Doc, I guess it's all right but what the hell does it mean...