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...when, as in "Tonight At 8:30," she can sing, dance, mumble, and drape herself over couches and double beds while singing Noel Coward's smart talk around the stage, Miss Lawrence becomes the most entertaining performer, the most scintillating personality, on the American stage. This particular Coward opus was originally presented with Miss Lawrence some years ago, and then consisted of nine one-act plays. The current edition contains only six of the nine, but the star nonetheless has ample opportunity to display her remarkably diversified talents over the course of the two evenings required to complete the cycle...
...Robinson opus, entitled "Untriangulated Stars--Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harry De Forest Smith," contains a collection of letters, none of which has ever appeared in print before, written by the poet from 1890 to 1905. The work was edited by Denham Sutcliffe...
Since the third act at least equalled its predecessors this is a very adequate evaluation of the latest F. Hugh Herbert opus. It is an "I guess I like it" bit of pleasantry that would disintegrate under any more piercing inspection...
...only complaint here, can be on what is left out. Omissions include not only specific pieces of importance, but also the philosophy behind them. Schumann's work follows a unique pattern of development which is extremely important for a comprehension of his ideas. Opus numbers 1-22 are all for piano solo; the year of his engagement to Clars Week was, in his own words, "song year," when he composed around 150 songs, some of them of incomparable beauty. This, on a similar basis, was followed by symphonic year, chamber music year, and so on. This growth provides a pattern...
...hours after the beginning of "An Inspector Calls," just as two balconies, an orchestra, and several boxes full of tired and tortured audience are about to give up the ghost, Melville Cooper puts down the telephone and recites a quiet curtain line that makes this J. B. Priestley opus almost worth seeing. That one sentence also reveals spectacularly how good a play the production might have been with even adequate direction or acting...