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...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...
...Story for Strangers (by Marc Connelly; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is told, via flashbacks, to a traveling salesman in a small-town barbershop, and is quite as dull, and ten times as long, as the usual barber's yarn. Subtitled "A Parable," the play is concerned with an undisclosed miracle that has transformed a rascally, coldhearted community into a garden spot of virtue and brotherly love...
Street Scene (book by Elmer Rice; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Langston Hughes; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & the Playwrights' Co.) is much more folk opera than musical-a re-handling of Elmer Rice's famous outside slice of life almost entirely in musical terms. There are arias as well as tunes; septets, choral passages, large-scale orchestral effects, recitatives. As music, some of this is fancy, facile, too high-pitched. But, thanks to the rest of the score and to the residual vitality in Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene is steadily interesting musical theater...
Tomorrow Don Phillips will take on the bonds of matrimony, also at the Chapel. Others planning on similar action are, just to name a few, Jim Cockels, Bob Berra, Art Marx, Romeo Ray Wible, and Mann Wiman. We'll expect a full account after leave when they settle back down to earth...
...Zehrung and "Rebel Bill" Wiman (Manfred E. to any Yankees under his "compance tenshun" were seen heading coastward with a million other people seeking a cool and secluded beach. They soon learned as have we all that here in New England a beach doesn't have to have send to be so named...