Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never went to the U.S., but he was scornful about the way American theaters adapted his works. "I compose music about the city I love," he said. "If you want to understand it in New York, you must play it as a Viennese operetta, not as musical comedy...
...determination to get Father baptized. Mother turns on nothing more momentous-simply Mother's determination to get a 22-year-overdue engagement ring; but it somehow seems much more cooked up. For Father had soured on engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...
These small recognitions certainly add as much to the play as Father's chronic rampageousness; and Life With Mother gains too, on the whole, from its many evocations of Life With Father. The family jokes are really family jokes by now; Father's "Oh Gaaad!" is emblematic as well as explosive. Howard Lindsay & Dorothy Stickney scarcely seem to be giving performances (though they are giving very good ones) ; Father and Mother have become too familiar to seem impersonated...
...profession seem lustrous; simply calling a bit-player "Maudie" does not make her Maude Adams. The Leading Lady, to be sure, had its moments-thanks largely to such accomplished character actors as Ethel Griffies and William J. Kelly-but there were not enough of them for the play to. run more than one week...
...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...