Word: logan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). France Nuyen, who is part French, part Chinese, part Broadway (The World of Suzie Wong), in a special production number worked up for her by Director Joshua Logan...
...back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan's cry, as he unsheathes...
...That's the first I sold. I was twenty-one." As for the play Comes a Day, "I just wanted to write a play, and I sat down and wrote one. Actually this is the second play I wrote. The first one was Out by the Country Club. Joshua Logan bought that." Country Club was preceded by a novel of the same name...
...period-piece reproduction, Suzie Wong comes in the original raspberry plush, with every dusty, looped inanity. every faded, tasseled cliche in place. Joshua Logan's staging nowhere intrudes a jarring present-day touch. Though the swarming street and cafe passages have hurly, and sometimes burly too, the more intimate scenes are all played largo, with silences like swelling organ notes, stares into space that pulse with tension, and pauses aquiver with heartbreak...
...Logan described his experiences in Moscow as a student of Stanislavski, "The Method," the director's proper role, the analysis of a live performance, and some specific problems he encountered while directing William Inge's Picnic...