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...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology), and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford. Machiko Kyo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...situations are seldom better than the lines, being funny mainly when the action is slapstick--a plant suddenly sprouting in joyful abundance all over the stage is the most bearable example. But the author occasionally leaps out of his verbal rut to pierce a pet political balloon very neatly: "Senator Cotton Joe Somethingorother is in the hospital." "Disease serious?" "Senility." "Then how can he be chairman of our committee?" Seniority." But originality is not rampant even here. Nowhere in the play is the humor more than mildly reminiscent of author John Patrick's lighthearted previous creation, Teahouse of the August...

Author: By Larry Hartman, | Title: Good As Gold | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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