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...Fancy Meeting You Again" is a very funny play, undoubtedly the funniest to come to Boston so far this season. It is the work of a master craftsman, George S. Kaufman (and his wife, Leueen MacGrath), and throughout the three acts the deft touches of a successful playwright are evident...
...lead role, co-author MacGrath is good, although not up to the high standards of the rest of the cast. It seemed to me that she used a bit more restraint than her roll called for. Without displaying aloofness for a calm, understanding interpretation, she misses the other extreme by not appearing so distressed as she might be when confronted with people who doubt her tale of reincarnation...
...High Ground (by Charlotte Hastings; produced by Albert H. Rosen) would be a better whodunit if it were more of one-if it kept its mind on murder. It has a certain novelty of atmosphere and attack: it tells of a gifted young painter (Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...
...Small Hours (by George S. Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath; produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura...
Playwrights Kaufman & MacGrath (Mrs. Kaufman) have written the latest of many price-of-success stories. Appearances, they make clear, can be even more deceitful than their own hard worldlings -in the small hours, the worldlings themselves feel small and lonely. When the play displays the Kaufman gifts for satiric comment and social chatter, it is entertaining and, now & again, incisive. But it emerges less comedy than drama, and less drama than a problem-play department store-3rd Floor: Career Women, Psychic Paralysis, Drugs; 4th Floor: Infidelity, Homosexuality, Adjustment Bureau. Often the elevator has scarcely time to stop, keeps rushing...