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...invariably tries to browbeat the press, claims he once persuaded the New York World-Telegram to delete an unfavorable section from a review. Critics, with the rarest of exceptions, he denounces as uncreative "hacks." Merrick particularly professes to despise Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune (Kerr reacts, says Merrick, only when his wife Jean nudges him), John McCarten of The New Yorker (whom he banned from his last opening), Louis Kronenberger of TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried...
...Snake Has AH the Lines, Kerr...
...Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr...
...necessarily bad. Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably Life with Father and Diary of Anne Frank. And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. As Critic Walter Kerr points out: "Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative." And other defenders invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were adapters too. The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world; most modern adapters totally accept...
...Sundowners. When not upstaged by dingoes, wombats, endless flocks of sheep and Peter Ustinov, Stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are appropriately knockabout as a shiftless couple beating the Australian bush...