Evening star., 1950-11-12
Youthful Cast KEEPS
Revue Looking Young
Lend an Ear Fresh After Two Seasons;
Cocktail Party Gets q Rival
By Joy Cormody

The fresh face bounding youth usually occupies
the fringe of the teater Even it could
Bankhead, out-sing Miss Norman out-charm Pima it
would still be on the lower level of fortune
This the nature of show business with all other
business in of which do the shining hold the
tons
In fact conditions are somewhat more favorable to youth in
the theater than the pckpang business Big Steel
Motors Banking least has domain that call
its This is the entertainment which
confidence youth unfouched beauty speed feeling
everything in the past rdculousespecay womens long
wasted dresses of the 2os.
has been long time since Washington had of
the revue to examine but the famine ended during the past week
with the appearance of Lend an Ear" at the Gayety.
The remarkable thing about this frivolous work of Charles
the sketches Lend Ear"
is the freshness has retained In the usual run OF m not even
night club chorus girls rapidly the material out Of which
s These highspeed ests the of
such standard as the movies the dances Nom and
Pop performed in their flaming youth and those Ticaly de-
scrlbed vacation spots in the Caribbean.
in the nature of these that they should burn out
quickly but this has not happened the of Lend an Ear
The only plausible to be found in the vness OF
those performing Gaynors little works These have the enhus-
themselves into the
eoe S fin cb creates convict;on IN the mart of everv
Lend that everything they do great stuff 1t is
spirit which the casts knowledge
that this is the productions final booking
is all quite pleasant most of all the dancing chorus
hilarious reminder of what frenzy life was back in the days when
the Charleston was the symbolic dance
Another English Poet Divides Broadway
S. Eliots The Cocktail Party Eliot
being poetphiosopher playwright calculated
provocative beyond the capabilities of damas No writer
exercised his extra dimensions
q hotter subject of endless controversy.
Last week however inimaton that the
about to be lifted from the spopular Eliot play
has along in the form Of another English
import Ihe Ladys Not for Burning pis
which also in like Eliot left
weekers with lot of questions
feeling that writer of his precosy is not fully to be trusted
The first curtain barely down before the started
quite hoty and promng that 1.-The Cocktail
With John Gegud and Pamela Brown giving pair of those
immaculate performances which they capable Lady"
assured OF sound Broadway run regardless of the dputaous
effect of the play tef.
is the saving gift of poets that their plays have this
deng virtue keep them alive while the works standard play
wrigh succunb because they worth arguing about
But 1t Does Not Always Work
Less retrieving the discussion that has Edge
OF DOOM the m version Of Leo on display at
kelths under the trademark Of Samuel Goldwyn.
Brady work that of poet whose ctional and dra-
matte writing has notably meodic adjudged by critics an
guilty OF pretty much the flaws Frye plays
1t moves IN the realm Of the human conscience spirit
case that OF boy who murders priest
fory but instead OF being admired bravery
IL Brady and film writers Philip condemned not
bringing back precise reports where they been
The Catholic University drama writing COL
leagues thus found themselves controversial mess as
Eliot and Frye but without the cor
respondingy stimulated.
probably another the difference between
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