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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone seriously interested in modern American drama should become acquainted with A Clearing in the Woods. It is a fine play, and some day will be generally recognized as such...
...three girl tormentors, however, are not facets of her personality but rather three historical stages of her life. Laurents has put them all on the same temporal plane--the present--so that the three can converse and interact with themselves, with Virginia, and with the other characters in the play. This dangerous gimmick, adumbrated in Miller's Death of a Salesman, works beautifully here and the result is highly effective theatre...
Mason's vehicle on this occasion is Mid-summer, a sentimental comedy that had a short Broadway run in 1953, written by Vina Delmar (chiefly known for her serialized novels in women's magazines). The play is not very substantial; but it is at least competently written and, in this production, always engaging. The beginning, however, is unfocussed; and there are numerous evidences of obvious padding, where, for instance, characters quote poetry, the Declaration of Independence, the agnostic writing of Robert Ingersoll, and the roster of U.S. presidents, or occupy themselves in a spelling bee and an arithmetic problem...
...supporting characters in the play are pretty much two-dimensional types, but the members of the cast round them out as much as possible. Betty Bartley is the whiny-voiced dumb blonde who dresses flamboyantly and is glad to give herself to a portly, cigar-smoking gentleman of means (Jonathan Morris); she has the funniest lines in the show, and some of them are really a howl...
Tomorrow is the last day on which students may enter the Summer School Tennis Tournament. Entrants pay a $2 deposit, which will be refunded at the end of the tournament, and must reserve a court no later than 12 noon on the intended day of play. If a court is reserved at a later time, students must pay for playing time over an hour...