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...York Drama Critics Circle best foreign play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of group-think toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
...JAMIE (Jason Robards Jr.), the elder son. is a writer who never really wrote and an actor who can hardly act, a noisy Irish drunk who at 33 has just about worn out his ne'er-do-welcome. But he loves his younger brother well enough to warn him that he hates him too and wishes he were dead-that way he wouldn't have to compare their talents and admit his own inferiority...
...Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More. Emlyn Williams is less effective than Paul Scofield was in the role. A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and Jason Robards Jr. rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecracking play, and Barbara Bel Geddes is still...
...Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More, with Emlyn Williams less effective than Paul Scofield was in the role. A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and Jason Robards Jr. rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecrackling play, and Barbara Bel Geddes is still...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. Playwriting about nonconformism is the conformist thing to do these days. Fortunately, Herb Gardner brings verve, humor, and a freshly observant eye to the subject, and his cast, headed by Jason Robards Jr., could scarcely be improved upon...