Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years Ago--At the Copley. Ruth Gordon's autobiographical entry into the 1946-47 theatrical sweepstakes deals with her early life in Wollaston, Mass. Staring Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, and young Patricia Kirkland and directed by Garson Kanin, it is almost all topnotch humor of Miss Gordon's school. On opening night the second act curtain and the finale were weak, but by now they have probably been patched. If you go for the Gordon school, you'll have a better chance of seeing it here than later in New York...
...even the wizardry of these performances and Garson Kanin's direction fail to hide the anti-climactic second act curtain and the heads-I-go-to-New-York-to-be-an-actress-tails-I-don't nature of the last act. In view of the strength of most of the play, however, these weaknesses should not be difficult to repair, and by the time it gets to Broadway "Years Ago" should rate as top-notch theatre. Even as it is, there hasn't been anything better around town all year...
Years Ago--A Ruth Gordon autobiographical comedy, featuring Frederic March and Florence Eldridge and with Garson Kanin directing, at the Copley Theater Saturday night...
Born Yesterday (by Garson Kanin; produced by Max Gordon) turns what could have been an angry sermon into an amusing evening. It deals with an ugly customer-a big-time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
...often, "The True Glory" is impersonal. It deals with masses of men in a gigantic military operation. In one significant way, the Carol Reed-Garson Kanin film admits and seeks to remedy its weakness: with a magnificently written documentary it lets dozens of the millions of common men soldiers of the Western Front speak for themselves--and the colored boy from Atlanta, the Brooklyn boy, the Canadian from Hamilton, the East-Ender fro London and all the rest are "the boy around the corner" in composite...