Evening star., 1951-09-02
The Passing Show
Play Curtains Down
In Tidy New England
And Thot Makes 1t Paradise
For q Critic on Vacation
The Passing Show
BY Joy Cormody


With only column between and vacation there is
why should not work But won't 1t keeps dwelling
pleasant England summer
residents will be from the shore the tourists will be back
home the England children school, and the theaters
There nothing like private beach unless it is private
golf course virtually private
feel that the world perhaps the entire universe. really
made for him after all.
It's All Beautiful, Empty Stage
New England beautiful setting in September.
empty lovely without actors and only two in the
audience This drama at its best and there need to write
STILL there is that last Sunday column
What to it? Too bad oliver Twist" did not last
week instead of could write rhapsody
about it, one of those weekend columns looking back upon
rhapsody having one oliver
Twist" does not until tomorrow
One thing though New England will be enchanting
New England of them dra
matte than anything the Of seasons plays
Take its trim-minded attitude toward Labor Day.
Overnight 1t All Is Changed
That's the end of in New England. All the
the old holiday festival marked by three big days
begins business living will
begin the next morning-at new address.
1t kind of incredible spectacle especially to the semi
Southern Wahngonan where thing almost becomes
another ovegh and where the change slowly
the squirrels IN Lafayette Park fooled.
There much less be tidy in local
weather This reflected in the heater around here
Labor Day lowers its curtain in New England Here it just
country drama sort of added flip represented
Seven with Leo Carroll and it is by no means the end
There three productions scheduled there afterward the
months last night. 1t also pre-Broadway.
One drift like that climate like this, There is the
thing the Theater, which presenting
plays endtond the weeks September II September
IL Bot by the way, the works of local writers.
Dromo Seasons Overlap Around Here
the Gayety, the will
be before the hearS closed The of this
overlap will be September II when Ginger Rogers town
in Louis Verneuil'S comedy, Love and Let Love
Naturally there nothing with this easygoing
life of things could Massachusetts, This
midweek will dramatic drive CohaSset three
miles the theater there 1t will look had
National for movies like
something inhabited by audiences and actors
AS this being written uaborousy. the multitude of Cape
being eaded for their busiest week
last fling festival of New Engands summer The
Decisive the of Yankees and the winds that blow
them.
Only Pointers and Writers Stoy
figure challenging this tradition by
keeping project going after Lahoy Day The artists who
main later actors directors The painters stay because
beatntakng September and besides paint
like private world And into occasional
writer with something get off his SOUL who selzes upon
the solitude teemng New England Fairgrounds to
encourage his inspiration.
thing boarding vacation like the
of lifetime To the OF spending the
boarded time bothersome 1t leaves with column
struggling along from sentence to sentence he can
it.
All through column. knows that it the
hardest of the year write
for the first after the end of such vacation