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Logan has interpreted Chekhov rather than writing a "New American Play" as the program mentions. Logan has helped the original plot only by contributing an American setting; all other changes he has made injure the play. Most obvious of his mutilations is the overdrawing of characters; in "The Wisteria Trees" he has replaced Chekhov's people with carieatures, exaggerated types which are often difficult to accept...
Fortunately Helen Hayes (Lubov Andryevna Ranevsky in the Russian and now Lucy Andree Ransdell) avoids this stereotyping. She plays the landowner who is most poignantly affected in the social change, a confused, sympathetic woman whose mind is clouded with nostalgia, occupied with the days of the beautiful Wisteria Trees and the Old South...
...nice!" someone once said of the Psychological Clinic, "Wisteria outside, hysteria inside." For the clinic on Plympton Street hides its work in a rambling vine-draped building which could easily be mistaken for a farmhouse. The interior is equally folksy: it feels more like the home of a large (and rather eccentric) family than the combined research center, clinic, and classroom building which...
...Marx's Day, at the beginning of Mary's Month, the soft blue wisteria gushed from every wall in Rome, and the iris raised blue-cauled heads. But it was the lush red cineraria and the harsh Red Flag that really bloomed in Rome. By May Day, 1947, the worldwide Communist Party had much to celebrate. Its latest and in some ways its most remarkable victory was in Sicily's free and fair elections, where the Communists last week became the island's leading party, and thus consolidated their position as the strongest political force...
...actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver half-drunken lectures to their children; elderly spinsters of gentle birth talk hysterical nonsense to impressionable youngsters; young girls creep through the wisteria vines to meet lovers their parents will not accept; young men split their minds trying to make sense of the hodgepodge of Southern traditions, gossip, inaccurate history and pompous moralizing that is given them for their guidance...