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...beyond the fine single things it boasts-the Negro dancing and Oliver Messel's wonderful sets and costumes-House of Flowers is a truly individual musical, to be saluted for what it possesses before being penalized for what it lacks. Truman Capote's tale of a bordello life full of genteel pretensions, and with far more high style than low instincts, has a nice rococo playfulness. Harold Arlen's score is attractive and unified, the songs delicate and unglib. About it all there hovers-despite no great amount of overt comedy-a sense of the humorous...
...stylized set by Oliver Messel, with out-sized exotic fruit and flowers run wild, help free the improbable story from the sight bounds of possibility. And, while there was probably little confusion, Peter Brooks' direction keeps the action flowing at a leisurely step. In all, this pleasant trifle should enjoy a respectable run applauded by many friends. ROBERT J. SCHOENBERG
...beautiful and tasteful Shakespearean costumes that I have yet seen. They have, in addition to excellent design, the virtues of simplicity and harmony, with each other, the set, and the moods. This may be because the settings (which are excellent), and the costumes, are done by one person, Oliver Messel...
...Mayor, the Chaplain, and the Justice of Cool Clary. Esme Percy steals a brief scene when he appears as a drunken psalm-singing ragman. The other players are consistently fine. Much of the credit for the smooth and well-paced performance goes to Gielgud, who direced. Oliver Messel's scenery and costumes are wisely simple and unobtrusive...
...Pittsfield, Mass., three years ago, Rose Messel went to pick blackberries. Her escort, Harold Plant, pushed her off a steam shovel; James P. Mahon and Louis Stasker slashed Harold Plant, were put in prison. Ralph Green and Ralph Thomas later clubbed Harold Plant, claimed that the parents of Rose Messel had urged them to do so. Ralph Green, Ralph Thomas, Rose Messel's father and mother went to prison. Rose Messel's father became insane, was removed to a lunatic asylum. Last week, a cripple, Rose Messel died...