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...California critic named Jules Langsner finally capped the argument with a shrewd belch, in the current Arts & Architecture magazine. Reviewing a traveling show including such abstractions, he observed that they "evoke all kinds of muffled after-sensations, but not individuated images in the mind's eye. It is as if vision had been converted to gastrointestinal equivalents, so that when the doctor asks you just where you feel the pain, the best you can say is that 'it's down here somewheres...
...bottom of the bellyache, Langsner quoted and neatly skewered Painter Motherwell's introduction to the show's catalogue. ''The process of painting [these pictures]," Motherwell had explained, "is conceived of as an adventure, without preconceived ideas, on the part of persons of intelligence . . . and passion...
...Retorted Langsner: adventure for its own sake is not enough-it should be a byproduct of exploration. "In the long run, the exploring artist returns with more loot because he sees more; he sees more because his sense of purpose alerts him to what he himself can find rather than what will turn up by accident...
There is very little acting, it being mostly a matter of getting lines off. For this reason the only people deserving of mention are Mr. Jessel upon whom most of the play depends and Clara Langsner as his mother, who does more than just go through the paces...
...first scene is in the Manhattan home of the Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into...