Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close of the first act, where he had a heart-to-heart talk with his young son and reminisced about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerged as one of the two most memorable scenes in the play. The other scene occurred later when Uncle Max, splendidly played by Bill Tierney, blustered on and on with incredible outspokenness and tactlessness until he caused the unspeakable embarrassment of all present...
Though the play is unpretentious, its genuineness has led Maurice Schwartz, our foremost Yiddish actor-producer, to turn it into a Yiddish musical for the coming season. One cannot help but recognize the warmth and honesty of Schulman's writing...
With Lynn Fontanne in the title role, the play ran on Broadway for months, and "Dulcy" became a household word. But tastes and standards change, and the play today is little more than a feather-weight farce and a historical curiosity...
This summer's Dulcy was Dody Goodman, a refugee from the Jack Paar TV show. She has one of the most unpleasant and whiny voices I've ever heard on the stage; but that is probably an advantage for this role. Heaven help her if she ever tries to play another type of woman, though...
...season included the tryouts of two new plays, which sandwiched a hammy production of The Happiest Millionaire (with Victor Jory). The first tryout was Sweet and Sour, by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke. It proved to be just one more play about the younger generation's attempt to deal with an intractable old father. The authors obviously thought they were writing the Jewish counterpart of Life With Father, but their play will never have 3183 performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played...