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Julius Novick
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Helen of Troy
Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so
Getting Married
The dedicated sect of Shavians will rush off like lemmings to see Getting Married, will I or nill I, simply
Children of Darkness
In spite of its manifest and manifold weaknesses, Mr. Edwin Justus Mayer's muddled and misbegotten pastiche persists in being perversely
The Policeman
Perhaps The Policeman is of some interest to specialists in Eastern European affairs as a sample of what passes for
Caution: This Is Not a Review
Who goes to the Brattle on Sunday afternoons beside CRIMSON reviewers? When a Marx Brothers movie is announced, small children
A Moon for the Misbegotten
The sluttish earth-mother figure and the doomed, self-destructive wastrel have appeared before in Eugene O'Neill's plays; some day--if it has
The Glass Menagerie
In the second part of The Glass Menagerie a Gentleman Caller finally enters the Wingfield home in a St. Louis
A Blow for Freedom
This is the true tale of how one brave man (Henry Fordyce, Jr.*) fought a great university (this one) to
A View from the Bridge
Like much of Arthur Miller's other work, A View from the Bridge belongs to the Drama of Embarrassment--almost the dominant
Heartbreak House
The seven stars of Heartbreak House seem to be wandering aimlessly in a wilderness of script. Harold Clurman, for all
Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into
Man and Superman
Bernard Shaw's "three-ring circus," as H. L. Mencken called Man and Superman, "with Ibsen doing running high jumps; Schopenhauer playing
Puntila
Repertory Boston, so recently given up for dead, is demonstrating not only life but considerable liveliness in presenting the English-language
Princess Ida
Sometime in the life of every Gilbert and Sullivan company there arises the onerous necessity of mounting Princess Ida --usually
Passionella and Other Stories
On the second floor of a nondescript building in Greenwich Village, above a reducing salon (and around the corner, for
