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...Pulitzer Prize jury and the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Broadway handed out its own laurels, the American Theater Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards, for the season's best work up to March 1. Best musical: Guys and Dolls. Best play: Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Other "Tonys" went to: Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman and Newcomer Russell Nype (for Call Me Madam); Uta Hagen (The Country Girl); Claude Rains (Darkness at Noon...
Lecturer Robert Chapman's Billy Budd keeps getting last minute extensions of its life at the Biltmore on 47th. Dennis King stars in the Herman Melville tale. Tennessee Williams is trying to maintain his lofty reputation with The Rose Tattoo at the Martin Beck on 45th; some like it very much, but all agree it is not his beat...
...Rapp's The Origins of Wit and Humor for the New York Times Book Review. Author Rapp, professor of classical languages at the University of Tennessee, is no credit to the joke business, wrote Capp: "He has a way with a joke, like Use Koch had with a tattoo. He skins 'em alive." Last week the Times let writer and reviewer scrap it out in Dogpatch style. Capp, wrote Professor Rapp, "has obviously not heard of the psychological experiments on wit . . . and of the 2,400-year history of the study of laughter . . ." Answered Cartoonist Capp: "I (gulp...
...some of its early clinical efforts, the Senate's Kefauver crime investigating committee seemed interested only in examining the lumps, warts and old tattoo marks on the body politic. But in New York last week, it was intent on deeper surgery. Though its hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...
...best of The Rose Tattoo is effective theater. David Diamond's incidental music is pleasant, and Boris Aronson's set appealing. Maureen Stapleton gives Serafina a crude, harsh vitality. But too often the play itself is lush, garish, operatic, decadently primitive, a salt breeze in a swamp, a Banana Truck Named Desire...