Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take Me Along (music and lyrics by Bob Merrill; book by Joseph Stein & Robert Russell) sets to music Eugene O'Neill's only pleasant, nostalgic play of family life, and keeps it pleasantly nostalgic. In Ah, Wilderness! O'Neill traded tragedy for Tarkington, Freud for the Fourth of July, tom-toms for small-town brass bands. Take Me Along keeps much the same small-town look, 1910 flavor, horse-and-buggy pace. Its drinking is confined to a likable bachelor and a would-be sex-bad boy; its passion consists of the same boy's book...
...miscellaneous and uneven as a whole. In the long final scene, where the immemorial charm of the English countryside is charged with the tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves for a time a kind of magic. But even here, more in the style of an old morality play than an English Cherry Orchard, it is the dawdling leisure class Shaw spares when the bombs fall, and the thief and the tycoon that he kills...
...week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden. All the same...
...Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire department (which recently cut the Theatre Mart's top capacity from 340 seats to an uneconomic...
...mark of an educated woman is her use of leisure. Reading a book of the month or seeing the latest play aren't enough. Educated women must have definite views and standards. They must know the good from the bad, and be able to say why. A woman must not only know facts-she must have ideas about them. There is a definite need for intellectuals in this country today. The modern world needs more people-including girls-who think for themselves." All down the line, urged Sister Margaret, education for U.S. women should be stiffened. More women should...