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...general individuality of the thing itself is braced by the expertness of the production: by the crisp pacing of Director Norman Lloyd, the lively performing of a likable cast, the fresh, amusing Hanya Holm dances, the clean simple, vivid William and Jean Eckart sets. Most of the time The Golden Apple is not only more adventurous and more sophisticated than Broadway; it is also decidedly more amusing...
Handsomely mounted by William and Jean Eckart, the play is directed by its author with the same smooth competence shown in his script. Using a series of set pieces rather than a plot, Chodorov seldom penetrates very deeply into the causes of the war between the sexes, but he does illuminate, with good will as well as good humor, one of the minor skirmishes along that worldwide front line...
...William and Jean Eckart is conventional, but it effectively catches the spirit of the rambling English country manor; Herman Shumlin's direction is perceptive and crisp, but there are a couple of wordy spots in the first act where the action drags...
...time: 1919. The place: a Bierstube in Munich. The characters: Nazi Poet Dietrich Eckart and Sturmer Ernst Roehm; another man, at a table apart from them, moody, alone. Eckart speaks: "We must have a fellow at the head who won't wince at the rattle of a machine gun. The rabble must be given a good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must...
...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...