Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present state, La Ronde is neither as daring as publicity would indicate, nor as funny. Its ingenious sets of Vienna in 1900, however, plus Oscar Strauss' waltz "Love Makes the World Go Round" add a romantic flavor to the film, and Schnitzler's carnival of love emerges pleasantly, if not spectacularly...
Anniversary Waltz (by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields) tells of a couple (Kitty Carlisle & Macdonald Carey) who are celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. The husband gets high enough to inform his in-laws that it is really a 16th anniversary-there was a year of unholy wedlock at the outset. No sooner are the wife's parents quieted down than the couple's teen-age kids start acting...
There is something so authentically unpleasant about the characters that the play might have some value if it aimed at realism. Aiming as it does at entertainment, it merely proves the shoddy road that can be traveled in the quest for laughs. Anniversary Waltz fetches a laugh, now and then, at the expense of such sitting ducks as TV and progressive schools...
With authors Chodorov and Fields employing almost every stock comedy angle, the case has no alternative but to play the comedian continually. The typical American family of Anniversary Waltz represents an inconceivable collection of wits, from the husband to the handyman. The play races along through jokes and slapstick with no member of the cast willing o able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after one act and pondering the question of which party, authors or cast, can keep up the pace...
...playing nearly every stock angle, Anniversary Waltz works for its humor at an exhausting pace. It would be surprising if the play failed to produce some extremely funny moments. The odds are for it. And because of its bright spots, the odds also favor the play with moderately successful prospects...