It may be that you will find Miss Benson's single-minded concentration [in "The Young and Beautiful"] on a difficult girl's mannerisms too unrelieved. It may be that you will find this girl herself too special, too enigmatic, too insistent. But the play is a piece of genuine observation, it is written with a shrewd and unsparing hand, and I think that Scott Fitzgerald might well have been pleased with it.

Walter F. Kerr, "Theater: 'The Young and Beautiful'," in New York Herald Tribune (© I.H.T. Corporation; reprinted by permission), October 3, 1955 (and reprinted in New York Theatre Critics' Review, Vol. XVI, No. 17, October 10, 1955, p. 269).