Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1947 — Page 8

Qi ter By HENRY BUTLER one thing “The Toeman Cometh” | will do is start a lot of disgussion. |& For the long-heralded O'Neill .|play, which opened its three-day run at English's last night, is lengthy and talky ahd full of gen&ralizations. And since we Americans, when, assailed by a great deal of talk, on | Andrews |the stage or in the movies, look for | a moral lesson which will justify and reward our patience, we're apt Wyatt as his wife 1 whose loyalty I toa “fram. the Tlceman's” sustains ‘him in "Boomerang," |i es.and-a-half-hour session with murder mystery with a Con- |notions of what ONeill really necticut setting, which opens to- {“means.” morrow at the Indiana. In that, we resemble people Who, a getting C plus for three semesKEEP SOVIET NOTE SECRET ters of psychology, know what their

ANKING, U. P)— relativés’ behavior “means.” N Gy; May - 8. ( But human beings behave long

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If there are moments in Mr. as in a painting by Herron Art O'Netil's study of defeated drunks in {school’s Edwin Fulwider, commands a 1912 Brooklyn saloon when you |the best efforts of the actors as it can say some of the characters are {commands the attention of the trying to drown in liquor a sense of | audience, guilt, that's because both you and| .It's right. It's good. You come Mr. O'Neill. are aware of current out from the play with your parcel explanations of drunkenness. “ [of ideas, and I come out with mine. Or if you think you've got the | More important than our ideas is symbolism of the Iceman's repre-|the fact that we've seen dramatic

lenting death, you score again, but representation of human behavior

on a scale comparable to those of Shakespeare and the Greeks,

O'Neill's way ahead of you. The great thing about Eugene O'Nelll,.whether he was experimeént- Sot ing with masks in “The Great God |, NOW for the credits. I must say Brown” or writing those monotone I've seldom, if ever, seen a play with “thought” soliloquies in “Strahge 5 idle So ldnrickia: 3 entire Interlude,” has aways been his| U0 I fu : 4 Speak; knowledge of people plus his dn-| =" Selguive eep leaning |comparable sense of stage effect 1 3 ou la) die ¢ land his grasp of the English ence got a bang language. Sub o on ed Roth Ploggl, _|the night bartender. . Pedi, a It 1st Just mahagerial egiinen veteran complete with seven battle

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disclose the contents of the Soviet|is explain human behavior. People tation that makes the cast deliver reply to a Chinese note setting pehave long before dramatists | superb performances. The-language anpdnd the pestéct Sarason of forth proposed steps for transfer transfer the essence of ~human is good; the ideas are good; the ab the oly + “Wor pe EY John of Port Arthur and Dairen from pehavior to the stage—a fact EW- entire conception of “The Iceman Marriott as Job oh kt Torier 8 Russia to China. The Soviet note gene O'Neill, being a great drama- Cometh,” even to the long, NAITOW |, 0... of o Negro gambling Hy &° was delivered yesterday. tist, knows better than you or I., set with its mostly silent characters, is convincingly ready to fight at the

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Reid's Heavy Assignment E. G. Marshall as “Hickey” sustains Mr. O'Neill's grotesque parody of “The Passing of the Third Floor | Back” role commendably. Carl Benton Reid, known to local audiences through “Life With Father,” iu the difficult part of Larry Slade is credible, although the assignment demands too much. I was glad to see and hear Earle Larimore (Willie Oban, the alcoholic alumnus of Harvard Law school, but | that’s no reflection on the school), a {Theater guild veteran. Mr. Larimore, still lean and lively, has, as he always had great stage presence. Treva Frazee (Pearl), Anna Minot (Margie) and Louise Larabee (Cora) are comic-pathetic to watch and hear in their ‘street-walker - roles. And Frank Tweddell as Harry Hope, proprietor, of the saloon and rooming house, is altogether real. | Douglas Watson, playing Don Parritt, ‘the confused youngster, has, you might say, incarnated Mr. O'Neill's intentions.

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