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Faithfully Yours
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Dec 5, 2016
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"Faithfully Yours" had a pre-Broadway test-run at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven Connecticut from September 26th to 29th, 1951.
hey bat girl.
can you show us "that queen trap, in the tchigorin variation"
Perhaps its the one called the Lasker trap in the the QGD?
The "Faithfully Yours," a comedic play, opened at the Coronet Theatre (later the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 230 W. 49th St., New York on Oct. 18, 1951 and closed on Dec. 15, 1951 after only 68 performances. It was written by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete and his wife Maria Helena Fagyas (under the pen-name Mary Helen Fay), based on the play by Jean Bernard-Luc. Pictured below in a romantic over-the-board scene are Thomas O. Harding, played by Robert Cummings and Vivian Harding, played by Ann Sothern.
The NY :Times," Oct. 18, 1951 wrote:
Two Hollywood luminaries, Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings, are co-starred in tonight's Broadway stage opening of "Faithfully Yours" at the Coronet Theatre. A comedy in two acts by L. Bush-Fekete and Mary Helen Fay (Mrs. Bush-Fekete), it is based on a play by Jean Bernard-Luc, which opened on the Paris stage last winter and is still playing there. The opening night curtain will rise at 8 o'clock.
The play flopped after severe critical reviews. As it was based on Jean Bernard-Luc's "Le Complexe Phileman" and the cast was wished "better Luc next time" since the play apparently lost something in the translation.
The plot revolved around a $50-hour psychiatrist who convinces Vivian Harding, a married woman, that fidelity is abnormal and if her husband still loves her after 10 yeras of marriage, he needed psychoanalysis. After Vivian attempted to persuade her husband to have affairs with three of her friends, Thomas Harding concludes it's his wife who really needs psychoanalysis. Eventually the psychiatrist gets the boot.
"Chess Review" featured this chess scene on it's cover: