Word: garson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years Ago--At the Copley. Ruth Gordon's autobiographical entry into the 1946-47 theatrical sweepstakes deals with her early life in Wollaston, Mass. Staring Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, and young Patricia Kirkland and directed by Garson Kanin, it is almost all topnotch humor of Miss Gordon's school. On opening night the second act curtain and the finale were weak, but by now they have probably been patched. If you go for the Gordon school, you'll have a better chance of seeing it here than later in New York...
Born Yesterday--At the Wilbur. A road company of the Garson Kanin New York hit, satisfactorily acted and every bit as funny as it always has been. It's no dramatic achievement, but it makes a very entertaining evening in the theatre...
...even the wizardry of these performances and Garson Kanin's direction fail to hide the anti-climactic second act curtain and the heads-I-go-to-New-York-to-be-an-actress-tails-I-don't nature of the last act. In view of the strength of most of the play, however, these weaknesses should not be difficult to repair, and by the time it gets to Broadway "Years Ago" should rate as top-notch theatre. Even as it is, there hasn't been anything better around town all year...
...Greer Garson, Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
Years Ago--A Ruth Gordon autobiographical comedy, featuring Frederic March and Florence Eldridge and with Garson Kanin directing, at the Copley Theater Saturday night...