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This credit balance of Ibsen's is some what dissipated by David Ross's Manhattan production. In the first play of Ross's current Ibsen cycle, Anne Meacham made a formidable Hedda Gabler; Leueen MacGrath is a lightweight Mrs. Alving. Ibsen's Mrs. Alving is scoured to self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended...
Albuquerque, N. Mex., Summerhouse: Fancy Meeting You Again, an old one by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Leueen MacGrath and Tom Helmore in Gilt and Gingerbread...
...Potting Shed, by its writing and storytelling alike, more and more grips and stirs its audience. And thanks to a generally fine production, the last act is partly salvaged. As James Callifer's mother, Dame Sybil Thorndike displays an almost vanished grand manner. As James's exwife, Leueen MacGrath has quiet poise. As James, Robert Flemyng manages to make flatness sharp and inner deadness alive, while Frank Conroy, as the uncle, is merely perfect...
Silk Stockings (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by George S. Kaufman Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows) spent three spotlighted months on the road pitching things out and patching things up. It will probably spend many months longer on Broadway. The reason is not that it offers anything unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...