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Boston, Arts Center Theater: Anatol, a new musical from the Arthur Schnitzler play, with Jean Pierre Aumont and wife Marisa Pavan...
Though labor's political tent is held up by Democratic lodgepoles, the big chiefs of U.S. unions got up a sentimental $20-a-plate testimonial dinner in Washington last week for Labor Secretary James Paul Mitchell. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer William Schnitzler toasted Mitchell as a proved "friend of the working men and women of this country," although in an unsympathetic Administration it sometimes appeared that he was "fighting with both hands tied behind his back." Said Amalgamated Clothing Workers' spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky: Mitchell's is "one appointment that we believe reflects great credit...
...true love, is what makes the world go round in Arthur Schnitzler's satire on love-making in 19th century Vienna. His ten "dialogues" on a common theme have been given probably as many varying interpretations as productions--from the ironic bitterness of the New York Circle Theater's presentation last year to the delicate waltz-like charm of the movie version. Theatergoers expecting one or the other will be either shocked or delightfully surprised, according to their appetites, at the less complicated rollicking sybaritics of the Actors Company production...
Whether or not Schnitzler had in mind any moral statement about the futility of finding enduring values in sex alone is a question of little concern to director John Heffernan. The senior member of the company at twenty-five, Mr. Heffernan puts an appropriately youthful zest into the whole production. He finds little irony in the lines and focuses the humor on desire, social inhibitions, frustration, and zany hypocrisy. A sociology of sex emerges which stresses the primacy of simple desire over attempts to cloak it in social idealization. For any who don't already know the plot, girl meets...
Female Lead: Edith Iselin, as Young Wife in Schnitzler's "Reigen" (HDC); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Jocasta in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (Eliot); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Gertrude in Shakespeare's "Hamlet...