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...Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Some sprightly wit and stylish prose about an aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Except for this flatulent postscript, Author Menen's sprightly wit and stylish prose make The Fig Tree the choicest summer reading of the winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light & Impolite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...designs of Audry Cruddas, for one thing, are nothing if not stylish. Her costumes (lots of trim uniforms) are more or less Edwardian, which is the fashionable period nowadays for doing sixteenth century drama. Her sets are attractively simple: the throne room is two chairs and a scarlet canopy against a black background, and the queen's bedroom is an ottoman and a great scarlet-canopied bed against the all-prevasive black. The scenes of hurried conspiracy after the Play Scene are done mostly on a bare, black stage swept with light across the front, as if to show that...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Hamlet | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

...thing about The Good Woman is that it is a joke, a big, bizarre, stylish joke. The HDC seems to forget to laugh at times, but its confusing and spontaneous telling of the joke never bores and for this we are thankful...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Good Woman of Setzuan | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...accident. His rich, lowdown nature is right up Kurnitz' alley, which is Shubert with a touch of Tin Pan. In the world of music, as of art, Playwright Kurnitz remains Broadway to the core, He is not the only recent playwright whose treatment of a stylish professional world, by comparison with The Man Who Came to Dinner, for example, seems raspingly lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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