Word: copley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting thing about "Winterset," currently being revived at the Copley Theatre, is the fact that it is a revival--of the Maxwell Anderson of several years ago. More particularly, it recalls vividly to mind the kind of work the man was doing, at that time, and it leaves the discouraging impression that since then he has been losing himself almost as rapidly as hopelessly. Then he was a man who was full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that...
...Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight at the Copley Plaza. If you are a fast talker, you might be able to wangle your way into this...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...
...play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through...
Perhaps the production at the Copley doesn't have the slickness of the Tremont Street plays, but once it gets started it has plenty of zest, and backed by the fine Kaufman-Ferber script, it's a pretty good show...