The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-27

the POS. This drama by Ruth Good- is going to be heartily liked or dis lking money.
 "One Man Show is set in an art gallery run by a father and his daughter. They are good at finding unknown young Americans and bringing them to the fore. The fathers dream is some day to get enough money to establish a Mu- scum of American Art. The rela- tionShip between father and daugh- ter is extremely close-there is more than hint of the Electra fixation- and just at the moment when two new men come into her life, joining the artist, who has known her a long time and wants to marry her, the father decides to get out and let the girl run the gallery by her. self.
 One of the newcomers is a mil lionaire art patron who fancies the girl and she, hoping to get her father back, makes a bargain with him to finance the museum proj- ect. Marriage is not part of the bar gain, and when tPe father learns of it he is appalled, and turns 1t down. Meanwhile, there has been a young diplomat on the scene making a play for the girl and she suddenly discov- CTS she loves him. So, in trying to teach his daughter a little self re- lance, the father really does lose her because the bridegroom to-be insists that if the girl goes with him it is for good-that shes not to have the chance again to come under her fathers domination
 The play is extremely literate and has considerably more on the ball than the ordinary run of drama Broadway gets these days, but so far as I am concerned, 1t fails to come | off sufficiently to make it q thing that must be seen. The girls rela- 1 tionShips with the men in her life, i even that with the father, are never 1 clearly defined or worked out. Even though Constance Cummings did as | good job with the role as you could expect, I came away without ever having been able to understand the character she was portraying. And that all-important ingredient was missing something that causes you to feel that tEc make-believe you are watching matters great deal, at least at the time you are watching it. No spark.
 The cast is about as good a one as you could put together. Frank Ccnroy is the father. James Ren- nie the millionaire, Hugh Franklin the artist, and John Archer the dip lCmat. Harris directed.
 SHEPPARD TRAUBE, who did so much with Angel Street" the psy- chological thriller that ran for three years and was tops in it's field, has brought in what he hopes is a suc- cessor, "The Stranger" It isn't.
 The Stranger" by Leslie Reade, is one of those Jack-the Ripper tales, laid. as usual, in London. The time is 1888 and the action occurs in a workman's Socialist club. The central character is a Russian cob blel, not long in England, who Wanders into the club and quickly is suspected of being the killer who is mutilating women in the White chapel district. He is able to over. come the first display of suspicion but later seems to be soundly trapped The end is extremely anti climatic and ruinous to the proceed ings.
 Eduard Franz does a good job as the cobbler. Others in important roles include Eugene Sigaloff, AL fred Hesse. Kim Spalding, Stanley Bell, Perry Wilson, Eva Leonard . Boyne, and Wendy Atkin. Traube directed.
 "SIGNATUREr' is a play which Elizabeth McFadden has fashioned after short story of Melville Davis son Post about the murder of a wealthy landowner occurs in the conference room of a courthouse presided over by judge whose ac- tions quickly indicate that he has something on his conscience besides 1 q olilG o1 SlObllCo. III DIlOl UIlCl z never is any doubt that he is the guilty man. but the play is concern ed with exposing him and prevent ing him from railroading nice young fellow who's in love with a nice young girl.
 It is not an impressive drama by any means and there are long stretches of talk that just weigh the thing down beyond hope of re- coVery. It's melodramatic moments border dangerously on the corny at times and occasionally it seems ip danger of slipping over the border Into traVesty.
 Frederic Tozere plays the judge and the supporting players include Join the Medical WACS Today