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...GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of the 20-year-old Tennessee Williams play is so much the best drama on Broadway that it is as if a graveyard of mediocrity had abruptly kicked off all its tombstones. The cast, headed by Maureen Stapleton, lacks the distinction of the play, but the glow of this American classic bathes all that it touches...
...GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of the 20-year-old Tennessee Williams play is so much the best serious drama on Broadway that it is as if a graveyard of mediocrity had abruptly kicked off all its tombstones. The cast, headed by Maureen Stapleton, lacks the distinction of the play, but the glow of this American classic bathes all that it touches...
...plot has the simplicity of a short short story. A Southern mother (Maureen Stapleton) long since deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
...play. Midway up through the quarter the score was evened up by Harvard attackman Dick Ames's charging drive to the nets from mid-field. Later in the quarter M.I.T. returned with another goal only to be met by two more Harvard goals executed by third mid-fielders Craig Stapleton and Milke Leahy. Ahead by a score of 3-2 at the end of the opening quarter, it was Harvard's game from then...