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...York season would be anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000. Even if there were only the top galleries and the handful of others that, while uneven in performance, are still honest and earnest, a person would be hard put to see Manhattan's biggest, splashiest, dottiest, noblest and most beautiful show in its entirety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Best Show in Town | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...reasonable, the Mercury took on the financial gamble with the same light-heartedness with which it took on the cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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