A Hard Look at Foreign. Aid

On Maxwell Anderson’s Storm Operation: “Unfortunately, it is quite a bad play, not as bad perhaps as Moss Hart’s Winged Victory with its cinema heroics, or the author’s own Eve of St. Mark with its boozy metaphysics, but bad enough.”

On Saroyan’s The Beautiful People: “When the curtain goes up . . . it discloses a set that might have been executed by Salvador Dali, needing, in fact, only a rubbery watch and a couple of lamb chops. … It is relentlessly playful, rather pretty, and after a while I got awfully sick of looking at it. As far as I am concerned, this comment also applies to the play.”

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On Maxwell Anderson’s Storm Operation: “Unfortunately, it is quite a bad play, not as bad perhaps as Moss Hart’s Winged Victory with its cinema heroics, or the author’s own Eve of St. Mark with its boozy metaphysics, but bad enough.”

On Saroyan’s The Beautiful People: “When the curtain goes up . . . it discloses a set that might have been executed by Salvador Dali, needing, in fact, only a rubbery watch and a couple of lamb chops. … It is relentlessly playful, rather pretty, and after a while I got awfully sick of looking at it. As far as I am concerned, this comment also applies to the play.”