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...liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash; and his verbal aria on how sad it is to be rich is far more piquant than anything of Saroyan's on how jolly it is to be poor. Susan Strasberg makes a very pretty but monotonous-voiced milliner, and Sig Arno a capital headwaiter...
Time Remembered, with big names Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, and Richard Burton has just opened at the Colonial. "An aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale," Anouilh's play is Helen Hayes' platinum setting...
...milliner (Susan Strasberg) has been summoned by the Duchess in order to impersonate the Prince's dead beloved; in acting both herself and the dead ballerina, the milliner successfully wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...
Unfortunately, Susan Strasberg, the third star, seems a mere satellite. She is miscast, and downright dull, speaking in a disagreeable adolescent voice that fits Anne Frank perfectly, but adds little brightness to Anouilh. Fortunately, there are some extremely amusing supporting actors. Glenn Anders is ideal as the glorious Lord Hector, and Sig Arno serves his role as a timeless headwaiter with a skillful dash of farce...
After praising Guthrie's idea of the theatre, Johnston went on to criticize Lee Strasberg. "Strasberg sees the theatre from the point of view of the idealist, and has quite an unrealistic picture of what the medium of the theatre actually is. He seems to be under the impression that the theatre has something to do with life--by citing for us the French company of Cannes and the classic theatre of Japan, two schools that have nothing to do with 'method' acting. To say that the goal of acting is a perfect photograph of human behavior...