Word: vinegared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second week in a row, the New England Repertory Players have chosen a potentially entertaining vehicle and then failed to give it the performance it deserves. Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree" has all the characteristics of delightful farce: sparkling dialogue, timely action, and an appealing story. Except for an unnecessarily tricky final curtain, the play itself can easily be cast and directed to complete success...
...military endurance. He was only a plain, lanky, thin-lipped American, with a weather-beaten face, a dour smile, a sunburned neck: he might have been a hunter in the backwoods of his native Florida. But like the plain, lanky Americans who hacked the nation out of the wilderness, "Vinegar Joe" had created an epic-out of sweat and weariness and malaria, of retreat and desperation and endurance. And last week what he was doing for China (see p. 37) was worth all the noble and encouraging talk in the world...
...about art flourishing on empty stomachs. "The theatre is in my blood," was just a line that sounded pretty when you became a Cornell or a Fontaine. We're still rather skeptical, but very much in spite of the New England Repertory Company and its current revival of "The Vinegar Tree." As an evening's entertainment, this surpasses almost anything now available on the local stage and screen...
Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree," which they will perform through August 8, is a ten-year-old comedy of manners that, for harmless social nonsense, retains a surprising freshness. Except for a brief third-act lapse into didacticism, its clever risque dialogue will not lack punch for a generation schooled on the sharpness of Kaufman and Hart...
Tourists flocking this week to Arkansas' rolling, postcard-pretty Ouachita forests found a brave new Arkansas: aggressive, full of vinegar. Its citizens spoke right up, dead sure that Arkansas was not the worst State but the best. Said cocky Governor Homer M. Adkins: "Arkansans are now awake to the vast wealth and attractiveness of their State." Said reformed Renegade Bob Burns: "Now take my Uncle Doug. He used to walk barefoot on a barbed-wire fence with a wildcat under each arm. You know Doug-Douglas MacArthur...