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...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
...Hugh Herbert's new comedy, "The Moon is Blue," starts off promisingly enough. The first act is fresh and amusing, and sometimes quite clever. A naive young blonde, played by Barbara Bel Geddes, picks up an architect, played by Barry Nelson, on the observation tower of the Empire State Building. The scene shifts to the architect's home in the East sixties. There young love seems to be blossoming unchecked when a middle-aged, somewhat alcoholic rake played by Donald Cook crashes the party...
...happens to the comedy between the first and second acts. The last two-thirds of the play contains some of the dreariest, and generally unfunniest talk imaginable. Every once in a while a funny line comes along, but the dullness of the rest of the dialogue is stupefying. Miss Bel Geddes' lines consist of a string of incredibly stupid questions, each of which exasperates Mr. Nelson anew. This is something short of rippling dialogue...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Fredric March and Barbara Bel Geddes...
Burning Bright (by John Steinbeck; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein 2nd) suggests that misused talent can be more distressing than none at all. In this reversible raincoat of a "play-novelette,"* Steinbeck tells of a sterile husband (Kent Smith) with a fierce yearning for parenthood. His wife (Barbara Bel Geddes), out of love for him, conspires to have a child by another man. At first crushed and incensed when he learns the truth, he is at length comforted with a transcendental sense of being the father not of one child but of all children...