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...would be unfortunate to saddle this delightful production with a top-heavy moral. As in The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Trojan War will Not Take place, Giraudouz rejects a serious plane for the freedom of fantasy. Ondine is a splash of brilliant costumes (Richard Whorf) and imaginative sets (Peter Larkin). The appearance of such characters as three Loreli-type sprites and a walking replica of Venus de Milo break into the narrative to keep the lively pace...
...satiric fantasy, The Solid Gold Cadillac very faintly suggests The Madwoman of Chaillot: here, too, an old lady tackles and triumphs over hardheaded tycoons; here, too, are aired some of the shadier ways of high finance. But no two plays could be less alike in spirit, nor, for that matter, has Cadillac even a touch of the poetry or wistfulness of a fairy tale. A thing of gags and gadgets, of blackouts, movie shots and the loudspeaker voice of Fred Allen, Cadillac is satire that is always hurrying off into routine farce. Its corporation characters are the merest cardboard...
Best Plays (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Madwoman of Chaillot, with Aline Ma-Mahon...
...Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report. Now, 15 years later, he knows his second-chance success must come soon...
...straight plays offer an even more interesting selection for this weekend than the musicals. Hits like Death of a Salesman or Madwoman Challiot are now on the road, but the current fare is by no means lean...