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Kenneth Tynan, the second most influential of British critics (after Harold Hobson), said in the Observer of the production that "instead of floating along with the right impertinent buoyancy it slumped like a leaden souffle.... Of high comic style, in which the play abounds, the production was devoid. Mr. Kopit deserves better than this...
...guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable for its clarity and restraint; and in the jolly "Orpheus himself may heave his head" her own humor...
...Daughters (book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon Jr.) conscientiously adds its mite to making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian...
...Leaden Capes. The left-wingers have no pre-eminent leaders but a great many troubled followers. A barrage of manifestoes filled the press-manifestoes of Academicians, of mathematicians, of teachers. Left Bank intellectuals were asked to sign the Manifesto of the 49, only to discover they had already signed it when it was the Manifesto...
...came upon the scene during one of his evening rambles about the London suburb of Richmond, the youngster was entranced. There was a dark lane leading through weathered buildings to the Thames. Paul sketched it a few times, finally painted it when the streets were wet and the sky leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash." his father said...