New Play in Manhattan

Leaf and Bough (by Joseph Hayes; produced by Charles P. Heidt) was the worst sort of drivel--the pretentious sort. Dredging up everything stark, fleshly and Freudian in the theater from early O'Neill to Tennessee Williams, it became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher--among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough speedily closed.

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