The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 16, 1956

The Great Sebastians (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) are a pair of ham vaudevillians with a wobbly mind-reading act. They also find themselves in a wobbly situation, performing publicly in Communist Prague the day Jan Masaryk dies, and snappishly ordered to perform privately. But perhaps it should first be said that the Sebastians are played, in gay holiday style, by the Lunts. Otherwise, their being ordered by a Communist general to read the minds of his supper guests and their getting nastily involved in political intrigue might create an impression of something...

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