The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-19

NhB 5hNNkAbN bhhfhbNb hAth hbtH hbN remains that lt has some life to it and deals with 6 problem that Is worth the effort And, in passing, I'd like Co ask If anyone knows why c young writer trying hls hand at serious drama almost Invariably has Co clutter up the thing with one or more characters who are always quoting some famous poet or other Kind of writef2
 Anyway, Kubly Is concerned about the wives Of sefYleemen who re. main lonely for many months while their men are at the far corners of the earth He writes about five wives of the members of destroyer gun crew. They live together near the Navy Yard in Brooklyn Sex pfiVa. ton works on them in different ways, Two Are unashamed stfuhls pets, one does 6 little mild flirting, . Negro girl remains untouched and the wife Of the chief of the crew, Q inotber, does oil until after her hus. band is killed, Then she begins seeking him in the bodies of any sailors she can pick up until she Is FegeheFated by Desthumeus ness age from her husband,
 kublys argument, based on Bibs Heal example, is that the fighting men are going Co have te De under- standing, to forgive and forget, He doesn't attempt te say that the eens ditlon he writes about is general it iant an indictment Of the wives Of all seFvleemen-but the public prints nearly every day bear out tho fact that the problem does exist and that it's going to cause a lot Of heaftaehes after the war Is over,
 Tho play had q lot Of censor trouble in Boston, 1ehiefiy on ae. count Of 6 drunken Christmas Eve bFaVi, when the wives and boy friends swing" the song "gilent Night" and because of 6 scene aboard ship where the crew chief expounds his theory of forgiveness and discusses the respective merits Of Francois Vilieh this faVofite quotable souFee) and Jesus Christ,
 There are some beautiful little seeneA in the play, The whole is afe'ohI bhdSHU III BOHu fUBpuGVhI and when some really good plays come h, Men to the Sea" prob. ably will retire Into forgotten cor. fer Of the mind, But right now it is worthy Of notice, for all its faults, and lt seems likel ythat Kubly will Dc heard from again,
 The east of young people is e
 llkeable one and includes Rans dolph Behois Maggie Gould, Toni 0ilman, Joyee Mathews, Susana uarnett, Richard Camp, Michael Strong, Maurice Fills and Mildred Smith.
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 4 elGNVfCEMAN problem also is dealt with by FFahken, an eSs pefleileed dFamatist, in Soldiers Wife" produced by her husband, William Brown Me0ney, She brings 2 captain back from the wars 10 his quiet young wife and baby ne has never seen, The long separ. atien almost has made them stFan. gers and because of things both have experienced, life isn't what it was before, It's still good life, Of course, but each has changed . little and there have t0 be read. tietments.
 The husband brings back All Of the letters his wife wrote him and turns them over te 6 publisher 10 Dc brought out as a book on idea algNaARtaa hU tha al.laltab auIa aan before he was killed while in the captains command, The letters are funny, spicy and have q general appeal. The book becomes q bests seller and there is 6 danger for a time that the wife is going to get beyond her husbands depth finans