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...impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester ... I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra...
...pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than alive...
...mood and a character which blend into suspense verging on horror, and is thus the only piece which can claim to draw its reader onward. Yet it achieves this only in the narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels...
...still jars the reader when suddenly, midway through the story, the meditations of the central character are interrupted and those of a virtually un-introduced character are substituted. The main drawback of the story, however, is its dry, unexciting style, which while being appropriate for the character of the protagonist, tends to discourage the reader. Perhaps just a little more verve, if only at the beginning, might make it more enticing. Paula Budlong, the Advocate's stand-by this year, contributes her usual polished story. This one is less grotesque, more subtle and indirect than her previous pieces...
Moreover, the failure of religious sensibility is involved with a painful lapse of taste. The protagonist of the piece is not just any clergyman, but is plainly modeled on Hungary's Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. In passing its judgment on the imaginary cardinal, the film implies a judgment-before all the facts are in-on the real one. The moviegoer is thus left with the highly unpleasant sensation that somebody is turning a fast buck on the cardinal's misfortunes...