Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This transparent attempt at Meaning is in tune with the paper-thin plot line. Divorced husband, about to marry young sophisticate, is confronted with former wife days before divorce becomes final, with expected result. Author Jean Kerr abandons characterization at any time for the sake of a clever line, so that nobody seems very real, and the heroes, villains, and everybody in between all come out the same...
...would think that a play--especially one with five characters and one set--would need more than the world's oldest plot and a set of indistinguishable characters to justify its surviving. You would think that, but you would be wrong. Mary, Mary is just one Jean Kerr wisecrack after another for almost three hours, and the show will probably run for years...
...couldn't help wondering whether Mrs. Kerr created the wife in her own image. Miss Bel Geddes portrays a wisecracking terror, who is forever turning innocent remarks into fodder for her machine-gun bursts. She sounds about the way you'd expect Jean Kerr to be. Old Walter must have a hell of a time...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* An adaptation of the Jean Anouilh comedy, Time Remembered, with Dame Edith Evans, in her American TV debut, and Christopher Plummer. Color...
MARY, MARY at the Wilbur: New play by Jean Kerr, author of "Please Don't Eat the Daisies." Opens February 13. Monday through Saturday evenings, 8:30. Matinees Thursday at 2:15, Saturday at 2:30. (Opening night...