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...hell, then Bishop Williams did his part in sending the best and finest young men of his flock to purgatory. A quarter-century has not yet passed, but already Bishop Lawrence speaks out. Before his innings are over, America--and Harvard--will be making the world safe for democracy...
...well, I sure am going to keep my own ideas. I am just a well digger, not a lawyer, but I sure figure that if it is against the law to advertise in a public newspaper half interest in an oil producing property, it sure as hell is also against the law to advertise half interest in a Greek restaurant. That sure would be tough on the Greeks, just like it is on well diggers. I don't beleive that is a good...
Fragile enough is Molnar's fantasy of a swaggering, restless, ill-tempered barker (Burgess Meredith) who loves an inarticulate servant girl (Ingrid Bergman), marries her, beats her, commits a crime for the sake of the child she is bearing him, dies, is tried in Heaven, sent to Hell for 16 years, then allowed to return to Earth for a day to try to commit a good deed. The play's appeal lies partly in its letting the audience understand perfectly someone who never understands himself at all -who is bad because he is afraid to be good...
...play's appeal lies also in the lightness and grace with which Molnar tells it. He is able to infuse a whimsical humor into his story of a rogue who struts before the bar of Heaven and cannot learn humility even in Hell...
...production does not. Not only does Actor Meredith fail to catch Schildkraut's swagger, and the sets fail to measure up to Lee Simonson's stunning original ones, but the play moves slowly, puffingly, from scene to scene-as though Liliom took his round trip to Hell and back on a milk train...