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...When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott. Abbott has willing and extremely winning helpers. As Ford's wife, constant listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from chore to chore on an imaginary bicycle. As a kind of fledgling adult who married the boss's daughter, works for the boss...
...ancient of days has a small and ugly beard which just horizontally from his chin, a tottering gait, and a bottomless stock of half-completed, fluttering and totally impotent hand gestures. To which is added an unpredictable voice that shouts its superstitions in a surprising variety of registers. Mr. Abbott, actor, director, and critic, is Sir Sampson Legend, Valentino's Squire Western of a father. Occasionally he seems to slip from gruffness into his accustomed wearied and mannered style, but for the most part his Legend is every bit the landed Tory blockhead...
Shepley, who was 75, was a senior partner in the Boston architecture firm of Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott...
...ABBOTT LAWRENCE...
...matters, is at once simple and elegant. The audience sits on opposite sides of it; to their left and right are wooden balconies; and between the balconies is open space. This gives Richard, and everyone else, plenty of room to bustle in, and it must be said that Mr. Abbott takes full advantage of the opportunities thus afforded. There is no end to the bustlings, sweepings, groupings, and regroupings that his actors form on this bare stage. The eye is kept interested long after the ear has begun to tire. There are also costumes, handsome for the most part...