Word: kretzmer
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...bland Oriental smile." According to the columns, when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack...