Word: psychoanalysts
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Moss Hart's play idea is 18-carat. A hard-working editress of a fashion magazine, unhappy despite her enviable job and a devoted married lover, goes to get herself psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial...
...play is neither quite so good as the idea nor so breath-taking as Broadway's swoon over it. Its dream fantasias are much less outlandish than the dreams any psychoanalyst might encounter in a day's work, sometimes lack sparkle, occasionally grow flatulent. But the whole production, spinning from reality to its not too fantastic reveries on four revolving stages, is lovely to look at and delightful to hear. It has one dream of glamorous evening blue, another gilded dream of an Oriental fairy tale, a glittering dream of a circus that turns into a mild nightmare...
...week, ignoring these well-known physical data, the critics fell to raving about her theatrical versatility. In Lady in the Dark she does virtually everything but play a trombone solo. She is on the stage almost all the time. Gertie (age 42), who offstage has never been in a psychoanalyst's office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could...
Died. Wilhelm Stekel, 72, refugee Viennese psychoanalyst, wayward disciple of Sigmund Freud, author of Nervous Anxiety States, Sadism and Masochism; in London...
Suddenly a mysterious little man who looked like an anachronism appeared from nowhere. He was tremendously interesting from the point of view of both the Egyptologist and the psychoanalyst and even to Vag. It seemed almost certain that he was scurrying off to some clandestine meeting, deep in the entrails of Boylston Street, so Vag took pursuit. Of course it was bitterly disappointing to Vag's visions of international intrigue when he saw the little man turn off and head for Harvard Hall, but still hopeful, Vag followed him into the lecture room and procured a seat directly behind...