Jean Kerr | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Jean Kerr.

Jean Kerr | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Jean Kerr.
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By throwing a few brains around where they are not too conspicuous, Jean and Walter Kerr have written a capital light revue, "Touch and Go."… Being literate people who can read as well as sit down in the theatre, the Kerrs know what is going on in the manners of our time, and they say so with charm and impishness in the best stage comment on current foibles since "Lend an Ear."…

A bilious theatregoer might take exception to having a blues song sung in a 1949 revue. Blues songs are most effective in eras that do not need them. And the caricature of the flashback technique in story-telling is a trifle complicated.

But the objections from this column are going to be especially mild this morning. For the Kerrs have accomplished that almost impossible feat of bringing good minds into the squalid mart of Broadway and satirizing intelligent...

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