The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 31, 1952
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The Long Watch (by Harvey Haislip) would seem almost deliberately meant to bore were it not so glaringly designed to please. A wartime story about the WAVES, it is for half the way a prankish comedy, then abruptly swings over to melodrama. The melodrama turns on a WAVE who falls asleep while on duty. The first-night critics proved to be of sterner stuff.
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