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Not a good 'Girl'

The critics cheered two years ago when "Awake and Sing," Clifford Odets' leftist drama about a Jewish family in the Depression, received a long overdue Broadway revival. Odets' "Golden Boy" will be revived in the next two years, and some theater company is bound to bring back his agitprop masterpiece "Waiting for Lefty."

But what of his much ignored 1950 backstage melodrama "The Country Girl,"...

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