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What saves The Fourposter from what might have been its expected fate--critical curses of "static" and "trite"--is author Jan de Hartog's plausibly witty dialogue and believably gradual development of character. He has made things easier for his audience by casting his male lead in the part of an author of best selling if not memorable novels. Thus Mr. Cronyn can be humorously sarcastic without imposing on the audience's credulity; his lines are what one might expect from a clever, superficial writer. As his wife, Miss Tandy progresses from a blushing but eager bride to a mature...
What faults the play does have are due in the main to its unnaturally restricted setting. With no comic maids, noisy children, or boisterous relatives to lives things up, dc Hartog has attempted to provide a touch of raucous humor by a truly banal bit of stage trickery--a raised platform around the bed over which either one or both of the characters is prone to stumble in moments of passion or tenderness. This sort of thing is good for a yuk the first time, but after the third repetition even the fellers and gals of the John Hancock Life...
...CRIMSON's reviewer of de Hartog's The Four Poster pointed out that this work goes the three-character Voice of the Turtle one better by requiring only two players. He added the comment that "the ultimate peak has yet to be scaled" and that "de Hartog's record will stand for a time." Actually this is no record at all, for Claude Vincent's full-length drama Conscience has only one character. This play was done magnificently last spring in both Boston and New York by one of our greatest actors, Maurice Schwartz...
Practice also includes an extensive course in first aid, which 15 men are taking this fall. The Red Cross lecturer, says Steve Den Hartog gives the standard helpful hints, as well as subtle anecdotes. Such is the tale of the man who leaped from a cliff after being bitten by a rattlesnake, thus solving the problem of a mountainside cure...
...Hartog's The Distant Shore...