Word: lullabye
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But Mulligan was great. Still using no piano, counting on drums and a bass to carry the rhythm, he skillfully traded melodic lines in fluid counterpoint with valve trombonist Bobby Brookmeyer. They played all the old Mulligan numbers--Motel, Lullaby of the Leaves, Sextet, My Funny Valentine--old because in...
The Chinese Communist press, naturally, ignores such rumors, has confined most of its recent comment about Mao to plugs for a new lullaby that is being urged on party mothers. Sample stanza:
Lullaby (by Don Appell) concerns a 38-year-old truck driver who wriggles out from under his mother's thumb to marry a likable nightclub cigarette girl. The play first chronicles a honeymoon in Scranton complicated by Mother's rampageous arrival from New York; it then chronicles household...
Since Mother is played by Mary Boland, Lullaby is considerably more farcical than Freudian. And since Mother-when not making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of...
The play even has scattered bright spots of its own: Playwright Appell shows a knack for brightly stenciling familiar characters and situations, and if his dialogue seldom has wit, it often has sass. Thanks to a good cast, Lullaby coaxes a certain amount of routine amusement, first out of Mama...