Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...
...invisible to the show's patrons is the hard-nosed business that goes into every new bloom. With 44 million U.S. gardeners spending an estimated $5 billion each year on everything from peat moss to chamois-colored gloves with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and Burpee begin years in advance to cross-fertilize flowers to achieve the blend of color, size and hardiness to captivate this spring's buyer. To produce a new hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings...
...Gideon, sophisticated man of the world, just returned from Oxford to talk with his former pedagogue. It seems to be one of those who-am-I jobs, despite the promising dialogue, until the scholar provides him with entertainment, a fantasy play in which three girls (Libby Frank, Mary Moss, and Jane Bullock) play the parts of a king, queen, and princess on an island of three inhabitants--the king, queen, and princess. The characters embodying the characteristics of Gideon's three lost loves, together with an inordinate consumption of champagne and brandy, propel him into a stream of conscious fantasy...
...Uttal was thoroughly convincing in a demanding role and it would be impossible to say which of the girls was best. Not only did they make the fantasy the high point of the play, they also switched easily into the lovers' roles, and some minor characters besides. Mary Moss, as the Queen, was perhaps the most delightful character in the whole play, delivering her lines with an almost uncanny perfection of timing...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. A note of nostalgia and innocence is struck by the APA repertory company in its stylish revival of the 1936 George Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy classic...