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Slipping down for a minute into the second-rate, Mary Martin and Charles Boyer are dazzing audiences with smiles alone, since Norman Krasna's script is no help at all. Micizner and Main Bocher to add to the flashy effect, however. At the Alvin...
Kind Sir (by Norman Krasna) reached Broadway to a fanfare of trumpets, with $750,000 in advance sales already in the till. A Joshua Logan production starring Charles Boyer and (in her first nonsinging role) Mary Martin, its opulent costumes and decor half suggest that Miss Martin is still playing musicomedy. The whole thing may well prove the greatest letdown of the season; it is a sumptuous bore and a gilded vacuum...
Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink. And Kind Sir seems hardly more wicked than it is witty. Moreover, the production-instead of obeying the rule for froth, and moving as fast and lightly as possible-is all in regal slow-motion, like a Coronation rehearsal. Actress Martin cannot fail to be personally engaging, but her portentous pauses and rather statuesque poses are a mistake. Boyer's role allows an excellent actor no chance...
...Though not yet in rehearsal, Joshua Logan's production of Norman Krasna's Kind Sir is tabbed as a likely hit on the strength of its costars, Mary Martin and Charles Boyer. A comedy-romance about an actress and a State Department official, Kind Sir is due on Broadway in December, is already sold out to theater parties for the first three months...
Despite the "real thing" riders used, Wald and Krasna could not quite capture the behind the stables aroma of the rodeo. The broken down has beens who follow the circuit wistfully and drunkenly, the all night gambling and drinking that goes on to help men forget the fear, the slickers who weaken ropes and slice cinches for half a man's day money, the camp followers, the clowns with enough courage to compete but not enough talent--all these might have bolstered the story, had they been used...