Word: laureola
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...play itself is less bad than hopelessly talky and dull. Though the writing is better than the playwriting, it seldom seems alive; if Daphne Laureola was to be no more vital, it should perhaps have been trashier. There is nothing wrong with Bridie's subject. His play rather resembles Willa Gather's memorable novelette, A Lost Lady - in the lady herself, the perceptive old husband who dies (well played by Cecil Parker), the young romantic who idealizes her, the young vulgarian she sleeps with and marries. But far from capturing any of Willa Gather's lingering glow...
...Daphne Laureola (by James Bridie; produced by Leland Hayward & Herman Shumlin in association with Laurence Olivier) is noteworthy only as a vehicle-and a transatlantic conveyance-for Dame Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense...
Broadway seemed determined to start the season off in high gear. Opening month last year saw only one production, but September 1950 will have five: James Bridie's long-run London hit Daphne Laureola, Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State with Celeste Holm, Owen Crump's Southern Exposure, Lesley Storm's Black Chiffon, another London import, and Drama Critic (The New Yorker) Wolcott Gibbs's Season...
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