Word: mama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similarity between "The Happy Time" and a play called "I Remember Mama" is apparent not long after the first rise of the curtain. Both plays deal with the minor trials and tribulations of a happy-type family in which the children are experiencing their first taste of life and love. Both plays have their proper quota of eccentric uncles, indulgent fathers, and strong-willed mothers. Both plays have been based on successful and partly-auto-biographical books. I should be surprised if both books have not been honored with a condensation in "The Reader's Digest." As "I Remember Mama...
Robert Lewis, a former Hollywood bit-player and director of a musical entitled "Brigadoon," has done another one of his disturbing jobs of directing. What keeps "The Happy Time" from becoming a second "I Remember Mama"--a worthy goal--are Mr. Lewis' determined efforts at diverting even the touching scenes in a farcial direction. This gets howls from the audience and I should hope yelps from the Messrs. Fontaine and Taylor, if they give a damn about their joint creation...