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Against the cleverly stylized sets of William Roberts, this Shavian comedy is played with great attention to the point: the wit generated by the exchange of ideas and viewpoints. The absurdity of the reformer and his drive is set against the absurdity of the existing order and the complacency of its representatives. Shaw would have us be, in the words of Caesar, "neither bigoted in our attachment to the old nor rash and unpractical in keeping an open mind...
...dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
...play charades with infantile vigor. NBC's This Is Show Business (Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is a panel show that has stumbled back on the air. An entertainer appears, goes through his act, then raises a show-business question to enable the panel to display its wit or wisdom. One commentator has already suggested that the name of the show be changed to This Is Show Business...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable of a half-wit girl and a carnival strong man; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink and the beautiful, captured Britain...