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...MATTER OF GRAVITY by ENID BAGNOLD...
...film Rebecca. But all the while, really, Dame Judith Anderson, 76, one of the most durable tragic actresses of the century, has also had a yen to play for laughs. At last her vehicle has come in. On Oct. 23 she will appear in a television production of Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, playing the part of She, a famous, witty, 70-year-old actress on the verge of retirement. Having taken a crack at the title role in Hamlet at age 72, Dame Judith is not about to quit acting. In fact, she revels in comedy...
...Chalk Garden. Transplanted from stage to screen, Enid Bagnold's witty, pitiless and elliptical high comedy yields only a withered bouquet of hearts and flowers. Made by Producer Ross Hunter, who customarily trafficks in Doris Daysies, the movie is all thumbs, none of them green...
Patently contrived, the plot gave Author Bagnold a framework on which to hang some illuminating asides about "the astonishment of life" and life's wasted possibilities. But Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes sticks doggedly to the substance of a story that was all shadows, revealing a sure instinct for the nonessential. In this version, Governess Kerr and Butler Mills are obviously made for each other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss...
...CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...