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Clear Warning. Few could make sense of the involved and rhetorical propositions on which they were asked to vote. But De Gaulle had asked for a clear vote of confidence from the people, a personal plebiscite which would give the prior consent of France to his future acts-whether he negotiated with the rebel F.L.N., whether he did not, or whether he tried to set up an Algerian Algeria on his own. On New Year's Eve, De Gaulle had warned that "if the reply of the country were negative or indecisive because the majority was small or because...
Best from Abroad. Of the straight dramas, there are All the Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death in the Family; The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel; Advise and Consent, lively but shallow theater drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller; Face of a Hero (closed), based on a Pierre Boulle novel. The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation to a March, Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported...
Advise and Consent. A superficial but lively and suspenseful political melodrama based on the Allen Drury bestseller...
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Advise and Consent. Although never once cutting below the surface, this political contrivance (based on Allen Drury's bestselling novel) gets behind the scenes often enough to produce brisk theater...