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Moor Born (by Dan Totheroh; George Bushar & John Tuerk, producers). The success of Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street encouraged at least two other playwrights to turn their hands to theatrical biographies of 19th Century lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting...
...danger of writing about the Old West is that the author is likely to sound like Zane Grey. Be it noted that Playwright Dan Totheroh (Wild Birds} falls into no such error. And his heroine, Fay Pauline Lord, making her first Broadway appearance since Strange Interlude, helps make this piece a subtle diversion in mood rather than one of spurious heroics...
Such strong medicine as this requires bitter ingredients. These have not been faithfully furnished. Parts of the drama are heady, horrible. Parts of it are thin and tasteless. The author's name is Dan Totheroh. His ensuing chapters will be watched with interest. The acting was typical of a Greenwich Village production- some of it excellent, some of it shoddy...
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