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...Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor makes a parfit gentle knight and troubadour, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine are the very models of ladies fair. Supporting them are some polished character actors: Emlyn Williams as Ivanhoe's faithful Squire Wamba, Finlay Currie as Ivanhoe's father Cedric, Felix Aylmer as the patriarchal Isaac of York, father of Rebecca, and a whole host of Normans and Saxons, knights and squires, lords and ladies and kings and commoners from the days when knighthood was in flower...
Familiar Look. On the other hand, he never bothered to read the attacks on him in the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times because its city editor "has refused to say whether he was one of the leading Communists in the county"-a charge McCarthy has made before. (City Editor Cedric Parker has repeatedly denied that he is a Communist...
...Superman, is a dream sequence that is short on dramatic action and two hours long on Shavian talk about sex, marriage, war & peace, science, religion, literature, politics and man's fate. Before it was tried by Laughton and the other talented members of the cast (Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead), Don Juan had never had a major U.S. production. "The longest theatrical aside in the history of the drama," it was regarded as fitter for the library than the stage. Shaw himself conceded that it would never be successfully played because "they . . . will think it nothing...
...manage the First Drama Quartette (which plays Don Juan in Hell). He claims that his four prima donnas display surprisingly little temperament. Laughton, says Gregory, "has a reputation for being difficult, and he can be extremely difficult. But Charles and I work very well together." Agnes Moorehead and Cedric Hardwicke have the controlled emotions of veteran troupers. The only near blowup was caused by Boyer, who got a case of nerves during the chaotic train and plane rides of a series of one-night stands. Boyer called in Gregory and announced that he was quitting. Gregory silkily assented, but added...
Walter Kaiser tops the book reviewers in this issue with his criticism of Cedric Whitman's interpretation of Sophocles' plays. The review is good, straight-forward stuff, a great improvement over Kaiser's "susurrus of hosannahs" days of last Spring. Lewis Begley's review of a collection of poetry essays by Wallace Stevens is good criticism but tedious reading...