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Broadway has its Lunts; London its Oliviers. Last week Manhattan theatergoers had a chance to see the pride of Paris. Imported by Impresario Sol Hurok, Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault began a three-week run which will end with Hamlet, the play that brought their troupe fame...
...century mixup, Les Fausses Confidences was all ambitious mothers and wily servants, dissembling lovers and trumped-up letters. But in an elegantly stylized production, the play seemed almost to be danced. Done so lightly, even its witless deceptions had an air of wit. Madeleine Renaud made an exquisite widow; Barrault, playing an agile valet, had about him a touch of quicksilver, of Mercury himself. To enjoy the production it was less necessary to understand French than to respond to style...
Jean-Louis Barrault, Odette Joyeux...
...written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
What makes this indescribable pageant of midnineteenth century France become a great film is the acting of every one of its cast, principals or less, Jean-Louis Barrault turns in what is probably the great cinema performance of the decade as Baptiste. He is magnificent both as the frustrated dreamer of real life and as the master pantomimist whose inner thoughts are projected into his stage presentations...