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Eddie Albert and Nanette Fabray play an unhappy couple whose marriage has gone on the rocks because of Albert's callousness. Albert's repertory includes a vast array of demeaning character traits. He blames all his faults on his wife and his mother; the cost of the dessert at his daughter's wedding is more important to him than her marriage itself; and he cares more about his stomach and his clothes than about his wife. After Fabray leaves him he spreads his arms in despair and grimaces with suburban uncertainty (about forty times) wondering why she would rather live...
...adulterous spouse, Fabray, talks incessantly, but all the audience ever knows about her is that she left her husband. Her lines are most evocative of an elongated sigh of unspecified meaning...
...GREEK LOVER Jimmy Skouras, played by Conrad Janis, is the only character who seems like a real person. He is amiable and sentimental and would probably make a very good waiter. Within the barrenness of the acting around him, he somehow manages to exude love for Fabray. But, her inabilities prevent much semblance of affectionate interaction between...
...House Beautiful. Albert first tries to ship Skouras off to Chicago with a bribe of fifteen thousand dollars. When this fails he magnanimously offers to take back his wife after her two week, "maybe three week," little jaunt of a romance. The play reaches a climax of insipidity when Fabray, nine months pregnant by her lover, and Channing, nine months pregnant by her husband, punctuate a conversation about men and childbirth with the long groans of labor pains. In the middle of this scene Albert runs in holding a shot gun, and we learn that he has taken to violence...
...material is doubly disappointing because Albert and Fabray, both professionals of considerable experience, seem fully aware that the Boston run is only a preview before the real opening in New York in April. They put little effort into their performances. A paying audience deserves more from professionals anywhere...