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...newest Lear is a good deal more painstaking than vibrant. But its newest Lear is not only far better than any other that Broadway has seen for a generation; it definitely indicates, even though it does not definitively prove, that the part can be acted. Tall, commanding Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel, The Magnificent Yankee) conveys what the faithful Kent saw in Lear's countenance-authority.* Calhern also has a perfect sense of the vain, imperious whitebeard, the appalled father, the outraged king. And Calhern's Lear is often touching as well as grand. Where he falls...
King Lear, with Louis Calhern in the lead role, opens Chritmas day. One day earlier the ANTA playhouse will follow Judith Anderson with Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson in Hecht and MacArthur's Twentieth Century. For those who like Ibsen, and that includes most of the theatre-going public, An Enemy of the People co-stars Frederic March and his wife, Florence Eldridge, in a special adaptation by Arthur Miller...
...movie's hero could pass only for a Cleveland Indian. Full of good will for his white brothers, and wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor, Taylor rides back from the Civil War to raise cattle on his family's ancient acreage. A villainous, mustachioed lawyer (Louis Calhern) persuades a band of sheep raisers to homestead on Taylor's land, thus compounding two time-honored feuds: sheep v. cattle and settlers v. Indians. A pretty female lawyer (Paula Raymond) with an unrequited yen for Taylor tries for a peaceful agreement...
...Front Porch. Producers Rodgers & Hammerstein have scheduled Novelist John Steinbeck's Burning Bright, and Producer Cheryl Crawford has Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...
Such a leading role might be the despair of a skilled actress; for Lana Turner, it is a disaster. Looking less svelte than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak by in lesser assignments. Wasted in her first movie role, Broadway's Actress Phillips (The Cocktail Party) plays in a wheelchair, but walks away with every scene in which she appears...