Word: gordons
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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...
Park Avenue (book by Nunnally John son & George S. Kaufman ; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz & Ira Gershwin ; produced by Max Gordon) kids the multiple marriages & divorces of the ultrasmart set to a fare-thee-ill. Nunnally Johnson and George Kaufman are not lacking in the wit that made them famous - the four-times-married wives and five-times-married husbands come in for a series of brittle wisecracks and a sprinkling of balmy ones. But there has seldom been more unswerving allegiance to a single joke and long before the end it has ceased to be entertaining...
Adams: le, Coburn; lt, Becker; lg, Russell; c, Gordon; rg, Grauer; rt, Logan; re, Livermore; backs, McCarthy, Totton, McLaughlin, Marx, Lazar...
...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...
...Frank '47; John C. Grady '47; James M. Graham 3rd '49; Ellis D. Hodge '49; Donald B. Louria '49; Richard M. Potter '46; Robert L. Richards '49; Frank Rohr, Jr '47; Russell C. Schubert '49; Jefferson S. Smith '48; Robert B. Snow, Jr. '49; Frank W. Trinkle '47; Gordon G. Wood '47, co-Captain: Frank C. Jessop '47; Robert B. Lange '49; John A. S. Cushman '49, Manager...