Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality, the show is by no means up to the production. But it is surefire popular stuff, filled with surefire popular stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights...
...been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
...Sebastian are shipwrecked in Twelfth Night, it was a story based on the blighted, bittersweet life of Charles Lamb and his mad sister, Mary. Among its characters: a laudanum-shaken Coleridge, a sobersided Hazlitt, and an opium-eating De Quincey, who, as visiting friends of the Lambs, studded the play with some witty quotes picked from their own works...
Audiences and critics liked the play, too; they called it the best of Dallas' eight-play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write...
Television. Admiral Corp. showed seven new combination sets with television (12½-in. tube), AM and FM radio, and a phonograph that will play RCA Victor's new 45 r.p.m. records, Columbia 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing records, and standard 78 r.p.m. discs. Admiral claimed its prices ($475 to $575) were $50 to $200 below comparable sets...