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Wonderful Town's book, concerning the adventures of two ambitious midwestern sisters in naughty old Greenwich Village, lacks both continuity and imagination. A less skillful and enthusiastic production might have turned the play into a series of entertaining but isolated revues. Instead, Louise Bell and Susie Colt's direction has...
The problem is that the picture, like the Broadway play (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954) it is adapted from, is trying to make people laugh at a situation that is not really funny at all. Still, for an hour or so Actor Webb manages to keep the customers with him as...
Majority's skillful, amiable performers almost camouflage its sociological pretensions. What Majority wants to be is an adult East-meets-Western. What it is is a middle-aged Abie's Irish Rose, and it may turn out to be almost as successful.
Eight Days is a novel in which conscience is a disease, the state of grace a beckoning Everest. It also happens to be a brilliant thriller, the kind of suspense story on which Graham Greene once had the patent. British Author Gabriel Fielding, himself a Catholic convert, has already proved...
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Mark Twain jotted down 500,000 words of notes about Sam Clemens and the twain meet gracefully in this skillful edition.