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...play presents several couples who appeal to the judge for divorces, and do not get them. Then somebody else comes in and complains about his wife, while nobody (either onstage or in the audience) listens. Then two musicians sing a song, and that's all. At the end, none of the characters is any better off than before, and neither is the audience...
...good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those...
Farce tends to make Harvard actors foresake the search for truth in favor of mugging and running around, and none of these three productions is exempt from this tendency. As indicated above, there are compensations (Jane Fishburne's imaginative costumes comprise another.) But whoever exhumed these scripts deserves a citation for industry very far beyond the call of duty. There is something exhilarating about a triumph over a script that has outlived its audience-appeal, but there is something even more exhilarating about a successful collaboration with a good...
...that this movie, which takes place after World War II, has no horses, cattle, ranchers' daughters, or, most crucially, saloons, raises the important question of whether it can properly be classified as a Western at all. Aside from its geographic location, the familiar mountain-surrounded desert (Cinemascope and color), none of the characteristics which serve to identify the Western are present...
...gasoline. His figures: of seniors with A or B grades, only 11% own cars or have the use of them regularly. Among C-grade seniors, 33% have cars, and 62% of the C-minus-to-failing seniors are motorized. Cars owned by juniors with A or B grades, none; with C grades, 31%; and with C-minus-to-failing marks...