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...witnessing heavy, provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance...
...Angel Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...
...warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...
...eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...
Died. Antoinette Perry, 58, one of Broadway's few successful woman directors (Strictly Dishonorable, Harvey); of heart disease; in Manhattan. Tony Perry, ever the angel of tyro actors, was the wartime guiding spirit of the American Theatre Wing, left her heart at its seven Stage Door Canteens across the nation...