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While his family is forced to escape to western Europe, Zhivago escapes from the partisans for one last reunion with Lara. It is a weird, snowbound, dreamlike idyl on the edge of disaster, rapturous with love but also with an almost Chekhovian paralysis of the will. Eventually Lara is swept away to temporary safety by her old traducer, Komarovsky...
...Auntie Mdme, mameishly chartered her own Viscount, took off from London with a slew (38) of friends, including high-spirited Actors Trevor Howard and Charles Laughton. Highlights of the tour: a determined check on rive droite fleshpots, a calorie-laden spread at the Tour d'Argent, a gleeful reunion with another Mame, Greer...
...Family Reunion (by T. S. Eliot) opened a season at the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater that will consist of works by Nobel prizewinners. Though written 19 years ago, The Family Reunion has, perhaps with reason, never before been professionally staged in the U.S. It is difficult to stage, since both the inwardness of its drama and the trickiness of its dramaturgy are difficult to project. Yet the play is worth producing, however serious its shortcomings. For it more than endeavors; it experiments. And it not only has a certain academic interest where it fails, but where it succeeds...
Eliot himself, one of his play's harshest critics, has deplored its not fusing Greek story with modern one, its exalting "versification at the expense of plot and character." And all too often The Family Reunion seems remote just where it should be intense, seems to be abstraction without even the vividness of allegory. Bloodless, it fails to cut quite to the bone; it is only those inwardly dead in the play who ever seem outwardly alive...
...though never really dramatic, The Family Reunion can become suddenly theatrical; its Chorus of Uncles and Aunts, although too selfconscious, can be amusing or striking; the atmosphere can quiver with menace; and the expertly managed verse is flexible as other things are rigid. Stuart Vaughan's sound staging and Norris Houghton's shapely set make for helpfully stylized effects, although a cast that includes Florence Reed, Lillian Gish and Fritz Weaver tends to act in varying styles. The cast, understandably, come off best where Eliot did-with the language...