New Play in Manhattan

Gramercy Ghost (by John Cecil Holm; produced by Roger Clark in association with Evans M. Frankel) is a pale little fantasy trying hard to be a farce. In inheriting a house in Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park, a young lady (agreeably played by Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah) also acquires the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier. She already has two living beaux, but the ghost falls in love with her, too; since only she can see and hear him, she is first thought to be drunk and then demented.

Gramercy Ghost is as dull-witted as it is snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness--a pure Caspar Milqueghost--a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything but gay.

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