Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is an appealing little autobiographical sketch, now published in English, by a writer who was as close to the folk stream of East European Jewish life as blintzes and borsch. In countless stories (The Old Country, Adventures of Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse...
Nothing much has been added actually. The new introduction has the twin virtues of being crisper and spoken by Clare Scott. Miss Scott promises fun with a light touch which the rest of the evening can now deliver pretty consistently. The "To the Manor Bron" sketch and the concluding bit could both be shaved again, but with the changes already made in the show, these slow-ups are by far the exceptions. The pace is dazzling now: director Ed Golden being responsible for the production's sharp aim and high gloss...
...verse, however, which accompanies and gains substance or non-substance from the pictures deserves closer scrutiny. This verse appears in many cases within the sketch itself, in what may be described as either a cloud or a balloon. The opening lines create such a frenetic and frightening effect, that I will quote them out of context and with no possible frame of reference, as is the current predilection...
...portraits on top of each other, Ray decided to make eight consecutive portraits. The result, on view this week in Manhattan's Willard Gallery, added up to a tour de force for the initiated. But the others were floundering after they left Stage One: a generally recognizable oil sketch of Suzuki...
...making the transition from legitimacy to the music hall quite so effortlessly. Miss Jeffries was the only reason for including a tired sequence about planned amusement at the beach, and Whedon met every demand of the evening good-humoredly and ably. I cared least for him in a sketch called "We See You, Fabritzius!" but then nothing or nobody could curb that...