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...three months, as the Government has struggled in the deepening morass of Britain's troubles, Winston Churchill has thrived on the confusion of his Laborite adversaries. His temper has shortened, his glower deepened and his oratory come to full flower again. He no longer talks about turning over his captaincy to a younger man. Some optimistic Conservatives have brightened; perhaps, after all, there is an immediate future for the Tory Party...
...problem play in the Scribe tradition, Arthur Laurents' "Heartsong" has neither a biting social problem nor a pat formula to rescue it from a morass of meaningless talk and contrived situations. Susan Douglas, as Ivy, the eternal sex force, is Mr. Laurent's champion of illegitimacy. Although she was the only character who seemed to have something relevant to say, Miss Douglas was as uncomfortable in her part as everyone else last night...
...Irish fantasy "Finian's Rainbow" have found new and successful ways of putting words and music together on a stage. Other producers, however, instead of following the general example of trying something new, follow the specific example of the existing new hit. Consequently "Oklahoma!" was followed by a morass of Americana with fancy ballets, and no further progress. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote their show because they had a story to tell and that was the way to tell it. Their imitators wrote shows that way because Rodgers and Hammerstein were making lots of money...
...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...
Friedman has, nonetheless, avoided many pitfalls. His story moves directly and simply for two acts, and even in the slightly confusing third act never becomes over-complicated. And more rehearsals would have brought out some commendable dialogue which was bried yesterday in a morass of bad timing and missed cues. Again because of lack of rehearsals, acting and directing was not enough in evidence to necessitate comment. But once the Reading Theatre gets fully underway, productions should be much more careful, and the project should receive the popular response it deserves...