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...DAVID MERRICK New York City...
...spontaneous and sensitive painting of David Merrick is a delight. SERENE FELDMAN SUSAN TAMMANY Syracuse...
...Amid a riot of witty wordage and abundant alliteration, TIME portrayed Merrick not as a promethean, prolific, prodigious producer, or as a brilliant Broadway Brahma, but as (horrors!) the Abominable Showman! Couldn't you have kindly conceded that this charming champion of the theater has brought delight to thousands of theatergoers, given work to throngs of thespians, and made a place in the sun for worthy playwrights? JANE RENTON SMITH Plymouth Meeting...
Savage Joke. Last week Merrick's Marauders struck again at Taubman's successor, Stanley Kauffmann. On a recent trip to London, Merrick found 100 copies of The Philanderer, a 1952 novel by Critic Kauffmann that falls pat to Merrick's purpose-the book was the occasion of an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in England. (" 'Darling,' she whispered. How lazy, a woman's first words after lovemaking; how husky and bare"). Cackling wickedly, Merrick bought up the lot and shipped it home. Then he mailed 89 copies to editors and columnists all over the U.S. -and ten copies to key editors...
...savage joke, but then Merrick savagely resents the power of the critics, and he will stop at nothing legal in his drive to whittle it away. "Sure, I'm playing this thing for publicity," he says, "but I'm also playing a deeper game. I want people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out and start thinking for themselves about the theater...