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ELIZABETH, CAPTIVE PRINCESS (246 pp.) -Margaret Irwin-HarcourtBrace...
...Guild's January offering, nevertheless, is Margaret Irwin's latest jazzed-up documentary on England's first Elizabeth. Taking the 19-year-old princess from the death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...
Last spring the HDC gambled that it could make a hit of Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors" when the show had just flopped miserably in New York, and it lost. Now it is gambling on its ability to solve a tremendous casting problem. If it wins--and a very experienced member of the rival Theater Workshop gives it much more of a chance to win than I would offhand--it will have put some unalloyed entertainment successfully on the Sanders stage. This doesn't happen often enough at Harvard. I'm not betting, but I'm hoping...
...YOUNG LIONS (689 pp.)-Irwin Shaw-Random House...
Before the war, Irwin Shaw won easy fame and money by turning out smooth and clever plays and stories-for many tastes, rather too smooth and clever. Now, with his war experience to draw upon, Shaw has thrown all his energy and talent into an ambitious novel. As one of the Broadway characters of a Shaw story might say, this is his "big pitch." The sad news is that he has failed; his novel is depressing evidence of how hard it is for a writer to slough off youthful habits...