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After hearing the Times' starchy notice — "Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?" Brooks Atkinson asked — Hart sobbed and locked himself in his room.
In his book, Mr. Block prints Brooks Atkinson's two contradictory responses to "Pal Joey": his suggestion, in his original 1940 review in The New York Times, that one cannot "draw sweet water from a foul well," and the enthusiasm with which he embraced everything about the 1952 revival.
The show's problem isn't so much what Brooks Atkinson suggested in The New York Times 68 years ago, when he asked of the original production, "Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?" True, none of the characters in "Pal Joey" is particularly likable, unless you count its kick-me good-girl ingénue (a thankless part, here played by Jenny Fellner).
By way of example, time has proven that one can frequently "draw sweet water from a foul well" in the theater, even though no less than Brooks Atkinson thought it suspect after seeing Rodgers & Hart's Pal Joey.
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