Word: kerrs
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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...
...Kerr's collection of insults, sight gags, in-jokes, and social commentary contains a few clinkers, and some of the really embarrassing ones should most certainly be laid to rest. But most of the jokes are truly funny, and they should insure success for this creaking vehicle...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. The Waste Makers, Packard (2) 3. Who Killed Society? Amory (3) 4. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (4) 5. Born Free, Adamson (5) 6. Vanity Fair, ed. by Amory and Bradlee (8) 7. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (9) 8. Baruch: The Public Years (7) 9. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (6) 10. We Hold These Truths, Murray...
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...