Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the writing is awkward, and there is very little development in any of the characters except Miss Ferroni and one of the children. Not that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just...
...broadcasting after a three-year retirement, reminisced about the Victorian theater, which a great many people had frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...
...usual vaudevillian pattern of brief appearances by a large number of well-known Paramount characters is followed to the letter. While it obviously isn't art, it is undeniably good, or at least varied, entertainment. There are, in fact, several numbers which go over very well, particularly a humorous biography of Crooner Crosby, narrated quite cynically by Bob Benchley to Crosby's four equally cynical sons...
...fact is, "The Winter's Tale" just isn't a good play. If Shakespeare's name weren't on it, nobody would pay any attention to this stock, five-act, heavy "comedy," which not only misses its classical unity of time by 16 years, but loses faith with its audience by reviving the dead...
...family on her anti-social jealousies will make them any more sensible than those she envies; 10) everything is relative: she wastes what she can on lipstick and cigarets; the Tysons waste what they can on a debut, but the principle is the same; 11) her letter, after all, isn't green...