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...practicing C.P.A. until 1933, Producer Bloomgarden has a good record for picking hits (The Lark, Death of a Sales man, Command Decision), but he has had his flops too. His basic criterion for picking: "I have to like it. It's a terrible thing to do a show just because you think it's going to make a million bucks...
Back in the U.S., he had a fling at Hollywood again (26 frustrating weeks under a writer's contract), but began to hit his stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those...
...makes him almost unique in the world of commercially successful contemporary theater. His Time Remembered creates a light, slightly mad, slightly ethereal atmosphere which, if rather insubstantial in itself, sets up countless brilliant little touches--situations, moments, gestures, speeches. The play is not in itself as successful as The Lark, or as Thieve's Carnival or Toreadors, both of which it mildly resembles in tone. Yet the present production adds considerable creativity to the script, and makes the show as a whole very nearly live up to the high standards of interest expected of Anouilh...
...gallows. During Ireland's Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...
Recently back into prominence in America with The Lark and Waltz of the Toreadors, Anouilh divides his output into four classes--pieces roses (rosy, pleasant plays), pieces noires (sombre, unpleasant plays), pieces brillantes (shining plays), andpieces grincantes (grating plays). Thieves' Carnival is a piece rose, a delightful comedy of wit and frolic. But even here, every once in a while little undertones of sadness poke through the surface...