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Word: ranevskaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Playwright Logan's Lucy Andree Rans-dall is turned into a rather more aware heroine, and amorously lost lady, than Chekhov's Madame Ranevskaya. Helen Hayes plays the part with resourcefulness and brightness, and serves (more than anything in the play) as a kind of handrail through the evening. For Logan has not learned Chekhov's trick of creating drama by evading it, has not his ability to seem at once compassionate and inexorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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