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Theatre, 1956, March, 10
Gurman, Harold | March 10, 1956 issue

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Though the play "The Ponder Heart," by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, from a story by Eudora Welty is not a completely satisfying play, it is frequently entertaining. Its characters have a certain picturesqueness or at any rate a sufficient difference from the people usually encountered on stage to make them appear quaintly original. As one laughs and gapes with amused curiosity, minds begin to wonder and to query. The balance between the tragically grotesque and the amiably laughable is difficult to maintain for the full length of a play. In "Tobacco Road" when the boy bit by bit wrecks the new car he has just acquired one is convulsed with horror and hilarity at the same time.

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PONDER Heart, The (Theatrical production); FIELDS, Joseph; WELTY, Eudora, 1909-2001; COMEDY; GROTESQUE; DRAMA
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