Anniversary Waltz

Anniversary Waltz (by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields) tells of a couple (Kitty Carlisle & Macdonald Carey) who are celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. The husband gets high enough to inform his in-laws that it is really a 16th anniversary--there was a year of unholy wedlock at the outset. No sooner are the wife's parents quieted down than the couple's teen-age kids start acting up.

In fact, the daughter Tells All on a TV show. After this, the husband is so mad --or the playwrights are so desperate--that he walks out on his wife, then comes home to a wife mad enough to walk out on him, only she finds she is going to have a baby.

There is something so authentically unpleasant about the characters that the play might have some value if it aimed at realism. Aiming as it does at entertainment, it merely proves the shoddy road that can be traveled in the quest for laughs. Anniversary Waltz fetches a laugh, now and then, at the expense of such sitting ducks as TV and progressive schools.

But mostly it is crude, unavailing hackwork--domestic comedy that, when all else fails, drags the comic maid out of the kitchen.

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