Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Wheeling's adaptation of the old Germanic "Gypsy baron" folk tale, is masterful; he works some good dialogue into the search-for-the-pot-of-gold story, and his lyrics, especially for "A Flyer into Pigs," and "Peace-Loving Man," are unusually clever. Unhappily some of the dialogue is not properly stressed because the actors merely exchange lines without moving where better stage direction would provide some movement on strong speeches. Wheeling also uses some of his lyrics for exposition when they would be better as dialogue...
...next book, "The Loved One," a cheery tale of the appalling decadence of a Hollywood cemetery, was a kick in the stomach to his well-wishers. "Helena" is still another...
Waugh sets himself to tell the tale of saint Helena--the mother of the Emperor Constantine--who lived in the third and fourth centuries AD, and who, according to legend, discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem. The story naturally enough concerns itself mainly with the moral and religious background of the times...
...Washington's Gallinger Hospital, the wounded Collazo willingly told the tale of his crazy pilgrimage. He and his fellow plotter had known each other only two weeks. But they had agreed that the President should die, and that it was their sacred duty to kill him. Why? With flowery Latin eloquence, Oscar Collazo cried that his countrymen had been "enslaved" and that Puerto Rico's politicians were "tools" of the United States...
Peter Pan (St. James, 44th W.), starring Joan Arthur, is a good evening of fun. Welcott Gibbs' tale of life on Fire Island, Season in the Sun (Cort, 48th E.) is this season's first comedy hit. The best comedy, however, is Christopher Fry's literate The Lady's Not For Burning (Royale, 45th W.), which opened Wednesday...