New Play in Manhattan

Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy.

Ably performed by James Rennie and Madge Kennedy, Bridal Wise concerns itself with the tale of a horsey husband and his non-horsey wife whose marriage runs on the rocks because of their antipodal interests. After the divorce, Alan Burroughs marries a sort of female centaur. Joyce Burroughs mates with the family lawyer.

As in Private Lives, fate brings the quartet together on their honeymoons. Fate also directs the unexpected appearance of the Burroughs' mischievous young son Peter (Jackie Kelk), just expelled from boarding school. After a fair example of the devilment which Peter and his small Negro coeval (Raymond Bishop) are capable of raising, the lawyer and the horsey lady decide that neither of them could put up with custody of the Burroughs child each year. The curtain dips with the understanding that the Burroughs family, complete with Peter, will soon be officially reunited. If you are one of a large section of the theatre-going public which finds all child actors offensive, the disarming antics of Masters Kelk & Bishop should go far to change your mind.

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