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HEARTBURN.(Theater Review)

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To the playwright George S. Kaufman, sentiment was an otiose emotion that actually made him shiver. He once suggested to Irving Berlin that he change the opening line of his hit "Always" to "I'll be loving you Thursday." Wit was Kaufman's way of broadcasting indifference, but if satire closed on Saturday night, as he famously observed, he was smart enough to know that the bittersweet could run and run--which is why his partnership with the sentimental popular novelist Edna Ferber proved so fruitful. One of the most successful of their six collaborations, "Dinner at Eight" (revived at the Vivian Beaumont, at Lincoln Center, under the direction of Gerald Gutierrez) offers a ...

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