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...even with Elia Kazan's helpful direction, Love Life cannot hold to a really bright level, or have any real lure for long. It is always calling time on its own fun to try something else. Furthermore, in illustrating the decline of domestic life, it goes in for some pretty childish and cheesy spoofing. The interpolated vaudeville show is not on the whole a very good show or a very good idea. It does not seem quite consistent that Love Life -which so deplores the modern spirit of commercialism and greed-should itself be the stage equivalent...
...chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...Paris' haute cuisine; the editors of Field &Stream collaborating on a Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
...feminine leads, now evidently one of the company's strong points, are Margaret Mitchell as Phyllis, Denise Findlay as Iolanthe, and Elia Halman as the Fairy Queen. Miss Mitchell, seen before as Yum-Yum, has a delightfully crystal voice and an acting manner no less charming. Her eighteenth century makeup is excellent, and her innocent, pseudo-proper, very British diction in the spoken dialogue a special attraction of the evening. Miss Findlay is bewitching and demure as the 17-year old mother of the lad of 25, and Miss Halman perfect as the frightening but not really fierce Fairy Queen...
...critics' choice of Streetcar made Tennessee Williams the leading contender for the title of the nation's most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick...