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...Smile of the World (by Garson Kanin; produced by the Playwrights' Company) was, like Kanin's Born Yesterday, a plug for liberalism. Born Yesterday is still nourishing after three years; The Smile of the World lasted four nights...
...Playwright-Director Garson Kanin was looking for an actor to play the roughneck lead in his Broadway comedy, Born Yesterday. What he had in mind was someone along the craggy lines of a jowly, broad-shouldered radio announcer he had known back in the days when he was writing soap operas. ". . . You know," he would impatiently finger-snap, "a Paul Douglas type-but an actor." Unable to find a reasonable facsimile, he finally hired the real thing: Paul Douglas. It was a happy piece of casting; Douglas turned out to be as big a hit as Born Yesterday...
...plays could be produced. Behrman quit because he shrank from the managerial decisions imposed by the system. Composer Kurt Weill joined, but that still left the company with only three dramatists- and a lagging output. This season, however, the Playwrights have a real prospect of getting new blood: Garson Kanin (whose new play is on their current schedule), Ruth Gordon and Thornton Wilder...
Goodbye, My Fancy (by Fay Kanin; produced by Michael Kanin in association with Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) tells of a glamorous, liberal-thinking Congresswoman named Agatha Reed (Madeleine Carroll), who, 20 years after being expelled from college, goes back for an honorary degree. The young professor for love of whom she had been expelled is now the college president (Conrad Nagel). He and Agatha discover that they still love each other, and decide to marry...
...notch higher by a smooth production. In her Broadway debut, Cinemactress Carroll is excellent; she catches the lure, the charm, the strong-mindedness demanded by the role. But Goodbye, My Fancy, after a bright beginning, becomes here a little too slick and there a little too slack. Playwright Kanin so much admires the characters with principles that she has no feeling for the characters with problems; she seems both a cardboard crusader and a complacent one. But the very shallowness of the play proves a kind of virtue: the whole thing can just be considered entertainment...