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...Hammer of the Mountain, by Firman Houghton is subtitled "A Grave Comedy in Three Acts." The feeble pun on "grave" is the only display of wit in Mr. Houghton's thick, pretentious, muddled and terribly fashionable play. The first act, thanks largely to Stephen Aaron's direction, had promise. The setting was an old abandoned farmhouse used simultaneously as a secret meeting place for a pair of lovers and the headquarters for mock army maneuvers, and the dialogue, some of it funny, is about what is real (the war games) and what is not (Isabel, the girl, waiting for Charlie...
...passion, a love triangle, a murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point of view...
...Theatre has already completed casting for its production of Hammer of the Mountain, an original, experimental play by Firman Houghton, editor of Audience magazine. Stephen Aaron '57, assistant director of Loeb, will direct the play. Rehearsals begin...
SUMMONED BY BELLS (97 pp.)-John Betjeman-Houghton Mifflin...
...play will be "Hammer of the ," by Firman Houghton, editor magazine, with Aaron described by Aaron as a comedy serious intent, the play is about a battle in an army camp...