Word: calhern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, once the godfather writes it, gives Molnar's own a spirited last act. Earlier, The Play's the Thing is by no means always spirited: the lines are witty enough, but the story is all too frequently becalmed. The production, however, is well managed throughout. Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) acts the playwright with sophistication and style; Arthur Margetson plays the trapped actor with humor. As the prima donna, Faye Emerson always scores with her looks, not always with her lines...
Arch of Triumph (Enterprise-United Artists) is one of the outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
...During the play's seven-year road-&-Broadway run there have been 16 Fathers (including Percy Waram, Louis Calhern and Arthur Margetson) and 18 Mothers (including Dorothy Gish, Margalo Gillmore and Muriel Kirkland...
...sellers (Past Imperfect, In Bed We Cry); and Dr. Norton S. Brown, 42, her personal physician; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after Author Chase won a divorce from second husband William Murray. First husband: Actor Louis (The Magnificent Yankee) Calhern...
...Magnificent Yankee--At the Colonial, Louis Calhern in his original New York role as the great dissenter. Emmet Lavery's play is by no means top-notch, but it has the virtues of competence and historical interest if none other...