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...matron, Drake is a shameless charmer with voice that is pure gold. The score-much of it reprised from the film-is far and away the best part of the show. As for the negligible choreography, it seems rather like a course in ballroom deportment except for one cancan number, and anyone who can work up much excitement over the cancan at this date qualifies as a full-fledged member of the Geritol set. That may indeed be the ideal audience for this show. ·T.E. Kalem
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, Balloonatic by Buster Keaton, and French CanCan by Jean Renoir, May 10, 8 $1, Faust by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings...
...society pianists belted out Rodgers and Hart show tunes and one of the guests-those present swore to conceal her identity-performed an acceptable cancan. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth loved it. That party was staged in Manhattan more than a decade ago. This year's birthday celebration, "a biggish affair with family and close friends," according to the palace's description, will be one fully befitting a royal septuagenarian. Seventy is stately and sugary, according to Cecil Beaton's official photo portrait, which shows the smiling Queen Mother in diamonds and pearls against a backdrop...
...else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
Although Barrault's and Gabin's performances contribute, as does the magnificent photography (note how in French Cancan, Renoir recreates his father's Impressionist pastels), the real greatness of these two films is perhaps undefinable. As the characters move toward one or another stage of self-realization, Renoir's films take on an even larger, universal significance. His spirit, his ability to create characters through use of clear, almost divine, light give his films an aura of undeniable truth, as if he were a Biblical prophet, telling us the word...