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Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
...usual, the Lunts have surrounded themselves with an expert cast. Richard Whorf is especially good as the sketches in a sympathetic American broadcaster doing the crisis circuit ("the American public insists on being kept fully informed"). In all, it is a cast that makes the most of many excellently written scenes, and never really lets the audience down. It has been said that the American stage is incapable of producing a good play about a contemporary dictatorship. Mr. Sherwood has done it; in achieving his success he has looked at tyranny from the north side of the Mannerheim Line...
...Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine to suicide...
There are several other important characters, and all are caught in the same web of failure and unrequited love. All are also well acted. The illustrious team play the actress and author, showing their usual excellence. Richard Whorf and Uta Hagen are good in the other two leading roles, but perhaps the young man is rendered too grufily...
...production is staged by John Cecil Haggott '35 who has been associated with Richard Whorf at the Beach Theatre on Cape Cod and was a former president of the Club...