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Married. Alan Anderson, 22, son of Playwright Maxwell Anderson, and stage manager for the current Broadway production The Talley Method; and Nancy Swan, 21, Barnard College junior; in Manhattan...
...Talley Method (by S. N. Behrman, produced by The Playwrights' Co.). Playwright Behrman is one of the most adult living playwrights and his new seriocomedy tackles a grown-up theme-the fact that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability...
...Behrman has turned into a fire-eating social commentator. Much to his chagrin, he has now become the butt of his own satire. Last year in "No Time For Comedy" he poked laughing fingers at playwrights who suddenly began to write epics of world importance. Now in "The Talley Method" he has caught the disease whose symptoms he diagnosed so well. Perhaps for the very reason that he knew all the errors he might have fallen into, Mr. Behrman has made the transition to social commentator with infinite skill...
Tucked into an old-fashioned house in the East Sixties is rich Doctor Talley, completely cut off from his children and the rest of the world; his son, Philip, useless to society and hopelessly drifting; his daughter, Avis, bitter, cynical, trying to rip hell out of the old order through the Youth Movement; her suitor, as useless as Philip, but dividing his time between the Columbia graduate school and Madison Ave. bars. Into the turmoil comes Enid Fuller, woman poetess, who still clings to her faith in the good people, and Manfried Geist, a European refugee, already destroyed inside...
...form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...