Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic and the Loss (by Julian Funt) is an adult but unharmonized play. In some degree it is unharmonized, perhaps, through being adult. The play raises a complex of questions; and even if it is not so old-fashioned as to try to answer them, it cannot altogether clothe and dramatize them, either. Playwright Funt tells of Grace Wilson (Uta Hagen), a divorced Manhattan career woman. Grace is gunning for a much bigger job at her advertising agency. She has an agency executive (Lee Bowman) for a lover, a 14-year-old son (Charles Taylor) who stumbles onto the love...
...with Actress Hagen brilliantly right as Grace. Its content is valid; the chief trouble is a kind of clash between form and content. By relying on a naturalistic method, the play comes to need the greater fullness and freedom of the novel. There are too many problems in The Magic - indeed, too many potential problem plays-for it to focus quite right, or reverberate enough on the stage. Thus, for lack of elbow room, the play has Grace, within minutes, faced with the loss of job, child and lover. The lover, having served his turn, is folded up and pushed...
...transcontinental airline business, a magic, dollar-bearing word has cropped up in the last few months. The word: nonstop. Roaring eastward with a howling tail wind last week, a new Douglas DC-7 belonging to American Airlines hit top speeds of 480 m.p.h., made it from Los Angeles to New York in a single 6-hr.-10-min. jump, for a new commercial speed record. While American was hanging up its record, United Air Lines impatiently took delivery of its first DC-7 so that it, too, could get into the transcontinental race. At stake is the coast-to-coast...
...Yellow Fog. In The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a dozen new stories "based on unsolved cases [from] the original . . . stories," Adrian Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur's youngest son) and John Dickson Carr have tried their hands at rebuilding this magic world. Like a pair of Frank Lloyd Wrights constructing a row of thatched cottages, they have studied the authentic models down to the last detail. Holmes himself appears on the glossy jacket, dressed in his deerstalker and plaid cloak. Within, a yellow fog haunts as ever the windows of 221-B Baker Street, hansom cabs clop beneath...
Cropped Head. It was a good show, mostly because of the singable Rodgers music. Mary Martin was an effortless charmer as mistress of ceremonies, actress singer, dancer and keynoter ("What is the magic, what is the source of the secret . . . that sets Rodgers and Hammerstein apart from the others?") Mary, who had just closed the Broadway run of Kind Sir, cropped her hair again to sing her best-known South Pacific songs-I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening (with Ezio Pinza), and I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. John...