After three months largely concerned with gimcracks and revivals, Broadway itself revived last week. On successive nights, three established U.S. playwrightsMaxwell Anderson with Joan of Lorraine, George Kelly with The Fatal Weakness, Lillian Hellman with Another Part of the Forestbrought showers or real rain to parched ground:
Joan of Lorraine (produced by the Playwrights' Company) was really Ingrid Bergman's eveningher first on Broadway since 1940for Maxwell Anderson has written not so much a play as something playable. But it is enough to call forth all that is charming, serene and radiantly childlike in...