Word: clutterbuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
...play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their...
...Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
...stage was well set for Abbott's first starring role. Hundreds had ridden or tramped through three inches of unseasonable snow to pack the House galleries. The only empty space was in the diplomatic gallery, where Britain's High Commissioner, Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, sat in lonely state, until the guards let the public in there, too. To the front bench, where he sat alongside beaming Mackenzie King, Abbott brought the same brisk, workmanlike manner he uses in his office...