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While there, she gets just mad enough to cry. The episode might be more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
Ralph Meeker bestows a mangled dignity on a simple man's right not to think But TV's ubiquitous Arlene Francis What's My Line?) is a 21 -inch actress on a 30-foot stage. Husband or lover, or playgoer, they are all panel guests...
...most notably a tuneful lament called Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me). A floppy band of little girls clad like the urchins in Oliver! scamper about the ramplike setting to create illusions of dance numbers. One grownup girl (Joyce Jillson) lusciously blessed with beauty distracts the playgoer briefly from the show's glacial pace and Sir's ultimate comedownance...
...Critics Circle called it the best drama of the year and the cast broke out champagne. That Saturday night the house grossed $4,800, largest ever. Last week it won the Pulitzer Prize, and between them the two awards have hypoed the box office 100%. "Good Lord," said one playgoer, "it's as if it just opened...
...prevailing sound of the evening is whiny, rhetorical self-pity, though ten minutes before the final curtain Bea Richards pierces the cloudy monotony with a stormburst of tears and sun shafts of helpless laughter. But by then it is too late for the playgoer to be greatly cheered by a solitary rainbow of real passion...