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...though, it should be mentioned, with mixed success), and theoretical, as a professor. He brings all his knowledge to bear in his reviews, which, as is appropriate to a voice of conscience, are often most annoying--to the people whom they criticize as well as to the occasional theatre-goer and reader of reviews...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Bentley Sees Theater With Eye for Past | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer's eyes for almost twice as long as anybody else has ever dared to. He throws it very cleverly indeed. The dancing girls are numerous, nubile and explicitly photographed. Yul Brynner. as the Pharaoh, swaggering barelegged across the screen, will delight his millions of feminine admirers. Even Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Experience seemed to have softened him a little. He said he hoped for a time when the American theatre goer would follow a playwright's effort because he was a friend, like someone you take into your home because you are interested in him as a person--no matter what mood he's in or what he has to say. Anderson noted British audiences come closer to his idea. They tend to enjoy plays more for their own sake, he said, and not so much for their cocktail party value. Often the British will even go back...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Peace With the Theater | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

These reservations about The Honeys are far from crucial, however. The average, black blooded American theatre-goer will probably love this play, and with a little re-writing it should become not only a Broadway success, but a permanent fixture in the summer theatre circuit...

Author: By Stephen R. Barneyy, | Title: The Honeys | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

Among a field of heroes, Jesse Richard Barnet ranks the highest for producing the finest set of lyrics and the liveliest score to hit Boston this season--barring only Guys and Dolls. To any local theatre goer, inured to the relative inferiority of non-professional musicals, Barnet's work is just amazing. It is seriously the equal of all but the apex in professional writing, and it is steady in its near perfection. Not one of the songs in the show is less than very good, and several are magnificent. "All About Love," "A Word With You," and "Incognito" inspire...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Eiffel Trifle | 3/13/1954 | See Source »

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