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Faithfully Yours (by L. Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
...Father (by August Strindberg; English version by Robert L. Joseph; produced by Richard W. Krakeur & Mr. Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...
However, two brave individuals, Richard W. Krakeur and Robert L. Joseph, have produced one of Stringberg's finest plays, "The Father," and have given it such an intelligent production that it seems as if the jinx may at last be broken. Using Mr. Joseph's English version of the play, and with a cast headed by Raymond Massey and Mady Christians, the Messrs. Krakeur and Joseph have provided the theater with one of its most interesting and exciting entertainments in a long while...
...Young and Fair (by N. Richard Nash; produced by Vinton Freedley in association with Richard Krakeur) deals with life at a fashionable junior college for girls. And there's considerable life to deal with, for behind its trim ivied walls Brook Valley harbors more problems than an arithmetic book...
...Kiss For Cinderella (by Sir James M. Barrie; produced by Cheryl Crawford & Richard Krakeur). Twenty-five years after Maude Adams chose A Kiss For Cinderella for her last appearance on Broadway, Cinemactress Luise Rainer chose it for her first. Twenty-five years can do even crueler things to a play than to a woman...
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