Word: unevennesses
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Dragging more as the end approaches, the play seems to have been written on a streetcar called "Hurry-up." A bumpy, uneven plot that strays off the track more than once, and a jolting dialogue that gathers speed only when heading downhill, suggest haste more than tempered reflection. The few worthwhile thoughts on the value of means versus ends become lost in the general rush-hour atmosphere. Perhaps the author had to finish his piece before he could start his Christmas shopping...
...figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of the plot, for those who didn't know it--and added touches of external heightening in places where they destroyed the illusion of the performance. But in certain scenes--the early letter scene, for example--he rose to a distinctly superior level...
Assignment: Tel-Aviv (Paul Falkenberg; United Palestine Appeal) is the clearest effort among the four to appeal to non-Jews. It is also the least effective. It is no more than a slightly humanized travelogue, in uneven color, narrated by the glossily chummy voice of Quentin (London Can Take It) Reynolds...
Tricky Mix. Schary's tactics have paid off. Until he went to RKO, the chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income...
Verdi: La Traviata (Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Opera House, Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza conducting; Columbia, 30 sides, two albums). Apparently Columbia intends to catch the impatient, who don't want to wait for Toscanini's promised recording of Traviata. The recording is uneven, and Rome's postwar opera company is not all it should be. Performance: fair...