Word: gaslighted
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...Angel Street alias Gaslight were not the stuff of legend, it might be the stuff of successful Loeb shows; but workmanlike and entertaining as George Hamlin's production is, it reveals little in Patrick Hamilton's 30-year-old melodrama besides the all-too-familiar story. Conceivably aware of this, director Hamlin has inserted into the prgoram a defense of the play on historical grounds, claiming that Angel Street made melodrama "respectable" through substitution of psychological motive for coincidental fate. Suspend all criticism of Hamilton's Freudian prowess, and the defense triumphs. But there is a further pitfall, an arguable...
...brown woodwork a shade too shiny, is an eminently presentable post-Victorian product, markedly more solid than the usual Loeb interior. Alan P. Symond's lighting still casts a few unintended shadows, but should be rebalanced by tonight, at which time also the all-important gaslight might be better coordinated with Mrs. Manningham's references to it. Among the citations in the program is one to an outfit named "Bwana Bus and Lighting" whom we are presumably to thank for some incidental virtue of this pleasant, unmemorable show...
...have Simone Signoret-46 years old, French accent-let's make her the heavy in a thriller-chiller. She used to work with Clouzot, didn't she? Remember his Diabolique, about a guy spooking his wife with a faked murder? Great! Remember that other wife-spooker, Gaslight-all in a terrific Victorian house? Great! Only let's make it a terrific modern house-mod, pop, camp, the sophisticated rich, and the decadent games they play. Games People Play. Games . . . say, that's not a bad title...
...sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless-steel tubing and a ski cable festoon the fronts of the other two. The apparatus eerily suggests scuba gear, gas masks, or an astronaut's breathing equipment-items necessary...
...happened to the Met in many a day," wrote TIME in its first cover story on the opera's manager in 1951. He had at least convinced people, the story went on, "that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...