New Play in Manhattan

Made in Heaven! (by Hagar Wilde; produced by John Golden) is very broad comedy that portrays all the trials of married life while paying halfhearted tribute to marriage.

With a mild sense of character. Playwright Wilde shows Zack and Elsa Meredith having a routine run-in; then, with a feverish eye to plot, she lets Zack (Donald Cook) stage a hurried walkout. Letting men beef about women and women cat about men, going in for farce, floozies and any other loose filler it can lay its fumbling hands on. Made in Heaven! manages to keep the Merediths apart a great deal longer than the play holds together.

A catchpenny job for easy-mark audiences, Made in Heaven! largely treats the war between the sexes at soap-opera level. Its brighter wisecracks and shrewder moments suggest that it need not have aimed so low.

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