Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: Hans Conried in a new play by Arthur Watkyn, Not in the Book...
Millburn, N.J., Paper Mill Playhouse: A new play by Kieran Tunney, Royal Enclosure, with Celeste Holm and Cathleen Nesbitt...
Andover, N.J., Grist Mill Playhouse: Betsy Palmer in a new play by Lesley Storm, Roar Like a Dove...
...Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's play-intellectually deficient but emotionally valid-about the fight to save a young girl's soul from an evil spirit...
...watched with embarrassment. Lotte Lenya, as Jennie, is gawkily charming, and such Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht songs as Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny retain their peculiar combination of sentiment and cynicism, even when filtered through English subtitles. Viewers who have seen the English stage version that has played for several years in Manhattan's Greenwich Village will notice differences; the film, for some reason, has fewer songs, and its mockery of capitalism is more savagely direct. The stage play rewards the outlaw Mack the Knife for his evil deeds merely with a title and a pension...