Word: shairp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Bay Tree (by Mordaunt Shairp; produced by Shepard Traube) seemed a better play 17 years ago, and unquestionably received a better production. It is still a reasonably interesting theater piece; it still provides a brittle, glassy surface for certain emotions to skate over if no longer cut beneath...
...whole play is perhaps too prettily made. Psychologically. The Green Bay Tree doesn't always hold water; but that is not terribly vital, since it was meant to be filled with Pernod. Playwright Shairp clearly sought to develop an unnatural situation as much on a basis of tone as of truth. As currently produced, it offers less than it might of either. Denholm Elliott sufficiently captures Julian's wishy-washy charm. But Joseph Schildkraut reduces Mr. Dulcimer to a mere fussy epicure; and such is Schildkraut's own personality that he comes off rather more a continental...