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...affection, brings them together. Three years ago Turkey imported a paltry $70,000 worth of goods from Israel. Now they have developed a $28 million annual exchange of goods, and Turkey has become the No. 1 customer for Israel's manufactures. Turkey sends wheat, cotton, cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots...
...recital, its crescendo of horrors-some of which it would be unfair to reveal -The Bad Seed has gripping scenes and many chilling moments. And the play's quasi-realistic tone, its reassuringly middle-class atmosphere, enhance the sense of horror, often impart that sudden eeriness of the familiar, that peculiar credence of the incredible. And the play gets the accomplished acting it needs. As the child. Patty McCormack brings a convincing naturalness to her studied evil-doings; as the mother. Nancy Kelly fully and keenly expresses the role without ever merely exploiting its opportunities...
...Seed has, however, its shortcomings. It does not sufficiently hew to the line; it does not properly keep to a level. A faithful enough adaptation of March's novel, it yet has characters and scenes that, on the stage, make for slackness and dead spots. And it loses in intensity from having too many themes and too full a bag of horrors...
Into the theater's greedy maw has gone too much; what emerges, however hardhitting, seems' too meaningless. For all its force, The Bad Seed betokens neither art nor life; for all its grimness, it can only be classified as entertainment...
...SEED, by William March, told the horror story of a little monster touched with congenital sin, a pigtailed murderer only eight years old. It was done with quiet skill by an underrated U.S. writer who died within the year. This week it appeared on Broadway in an expert dramatization by Maxwell Anderson (see THEATER...