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...productions new to Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
...Robinson after he was persuaded to step out of such a part last season. He isn't right for this one, either: he plays a farce role with quite un-comic intensity. But the play does have a certain breeziness and three talented comediennes-Audrey Christie, Vicki Cummings, Enid Markey. They are cio match, however, for a sagging play and an actor who keeps spoiling his jokes...
...dredge up are corroded with hate and futility. He loathes his job, is desperately weary of the daily stint on the office treadmill. He detests his pretentious "neo-Georgian" home in Oakdale, a genteel Midwestern suburb. Most of all he hates "the goddamn blood-drinking octopus" he married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh, she chills Ferris...
Values F.O.B. Ferris tries to fill the loveless void with cocktails, out-of-town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
Ever since British Novelist Enid Bagnold warmed the hearts of thousands of readers with her smoothly told little story about an English girl who wanted to become a jockey, her admirers have been waiting for another National Velvet. They got their first disappointment in 1938 when Novelist Bagnold published The Door of Life, a sentimental tale of childbirth. They are not likely to be much encouraged by her latest novel, an ambitious but brittle portrait of international nobility as it slowly succumbs to the ravages of death and taxes in postwar France...