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...director DeSmit is subdued by the size of the production--"three sets, more than seventy costumes, thirteen leads," the program ballyhoos. In the first act the cast assembles like infantry battalions on a stage hardly ample enough for it under any conditions and made less serviceable by an amorphous grey shrouding which pretends to be the set. Since DeSmit is credited with the scenery this contriction is a failing of conception, not coordination. If his draping was meant to invoke the severity of the Castle Adamant the bastion of femininity rampant which is stormed by player and playwright alike...
...songs may camouflage the missing book but they cannot carry the show. Joel Grey tries to do that but the way his character has been written forces him to exhibit either a cocky disdain for others or an egomaniacal worship of self. It is more fun to watch Grey's nimble feet than his distressingly overworked features...
...this point I was taken to Colonel Weil's office, a grey office with a worn out rug, reminiscent of what you might see at an unsuccessful corporation...
...they called themselves Females Against Slavery--met in Philadelphia during the 1830's. It was an outrage then that women should meet thus together for some political matter. Few attended the gatherings. Their first meeting," and here her voice, hard, almost metallic, paused. She waited, then thrusting her steely-grey head forward, she went on, "At the first meeting there was a screaming mob outside the building. After the meeting the building was burnt down....People said that women," Mrs. Spafford told, "had weak feminine brains incapable of serious thinking." She received a generous round of laughter from the ballroom...
...movies, on an idea by Boris Vian. While Hamlin agonizes, Shuman methodically constructs an altar to the America of puerile plastics and persuasive packaging, raising a miniature tower of cereal boxes and cleanser cans. The Smurtz Vian wrote was a sort of ambulatory picture of Dorian Grey, a silent and spongy presence who absorbed power from the gratuitous violence continually inflicted on him, an embodiment of the unrecognized depths of violence latent in a comically arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped...