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Legend of Sarah (by James Gow & Arnaud d'Usseau; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) shows the serious-minded authors of Tomorrow the World and Deep Are the Roots having their first fling at comedy. The result is innocuous, but it is also tenuous and labored-the sort of play that could end virtually anywhere and never seems...
...Dinelli; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is young and very dangerous-a paranoiac with a persecution mania who comes to do a day's cleaning for a kindly, middle-aged widow. At first he cleans a little and complains a little. Then he slowly starts manifesting symptoms of mental disorder, conveying suggestions of physical violence. All the while he is also locking doors until the terrified housewife is completely his prisoner. The end is still some way off, but sufficiently gruesome when it comes...
Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...
Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...
Command Decision (by William Wister Haines; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) had several critics waist-deep in adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...