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...eagerness which parodies the mannerisms of Julie Harris, his performance is a long dull thud from beginning to end. In fact, with Mr. Cooper tossing off his lines with the delicacy of a shot-putter, his soliloquies offer the most painful moments in the current theatre. Since John Van Druten's script has Isherwood on the stage almost every second of the play, the result is pretty appalling...
...Feel. She credits Joshua Logan with steering her away from a too hasty assault on Broadway. He advised: "Get the feel of an audience again. Listen to it. Practice on the road and see what comes of it." Rosalind went on tour in John van Druten's Bell, Book and Candle. The reviews were consistently good, but she thinks she was terrible for the first three months: "I'd become sluggish working with the camera. The stage demands that you use 42 new muscles and you can't let down for one minute." After three months...
...Sixpence (by John van Druten) is well intended and very ill contrived. The author of The Voice of the Turtle is frankly preaching man's need for some kind of faith. But in the very act of bringing the light, the dramatist in van Druten himself has lost his way. I've Got Sixpence is never persuasive and only fitfully lively...
Inadequate though it is, the straight preaching in I've Got Sixpence merits greater respect than the more entertaining episodes where Playwright van Druten strives to be both high-minded and high-spirited. Where Eliot's cocktail-party frivolities have real emblematic force, much that is entertaining in I've Got Sixpence goes out too directly for laughs. In an extremely serious scene where the writer describes how his publishers have turned down his manuscript, he intrudes such a pure theatrical gag as: "They said it was very well typed"; and for no reason except that...
...Manhattan, the New York Drama Critics Circle announced its annual awards: for the best American play, John van Druten (I Am a Camera); best foreign play, Christopher Fry (Venus Observed); best musical, Rodgers & Hart and John O'Hara (Pal Joey); for the "most distinguished and original," George Bernard Shaw (Don Juan in Hell...