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Playwright Williams' instinct for the theatrical jugular makes even this mannikin play bleed greasepaint. Elia Kazan's direction is intense, Jo Mielziner's sets are broodily menacing, and Paul Bowles's mood music shimmers. But the only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears...
Although safety was the underlying cause of President Jordan's concern, we hope that the more aesthetic horrors afforded by women on wheels added to his fear What could be a more terrifying sight at nine in the morning than a shaggy-maned mannikin with powder-glazed eyes swirling down Mass. Ave. like a fugitive from a broomstick brigade? Such a sight has sent many an Advanced Standing Freshman reeling into academic probation besides delaying his emotional maturation...
...cartoon called Island Hopping shows a steel-spring mannikin stepping triumphantly toward the Jap home fortress over Pacific islands which are not all terra firma...
...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...
...Shopgirl readers who were melted to delicious tears by Hans Fallada's mannikin novel of the depression, Little Man, What Now?, found his next book, The World Outside, much less to their liking. Last week they opened Once We Had a Child with mingled feelings of alarm. Their feelings were justified for Once We Had a Child is a tragedy of sombre hue. But it is a lengthy book (631 pp.) and long before the shades begin to close in, light-minded readers could find all that they were looking for in the way of hearty anecdote, curmudgeonly character...