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Look After Lulu (adapted by Noel Coward from Georges Feydeau's Occupe toi d'Amélie) is a game of musical chairs played with beds. Philippe (George Baker), who must leave Paris on regimental maneuvers, asks his pal Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner...
...Coward's dialogue for this turn-of-the-century French farce is broad more often than bright, and Cyril Ritchard's direction is often as agitated as it is agile. The cast works hard for its laughs, but it does get them. Tammy Grimes chirps and wiggles saucily, although she suggests a visiting British cutup rather than a Parisian cocotte. Cecil Beaton's settings are like a brilliant tropical aquarium with a lavish flora of swirling, colorful gowns and hats...
ELIZABETH THE GREAT (336 pp.)-Elizabeth Jenkins-Coward-McCann...
...moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...
...sassiest fancy talkers in the business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads -On a Slow Boat to China, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis-and introduce a punchy, potential hit named Calcutta. One of the most intriguing vocal entertainments since Noel Coward had his famous chat with Mary Martin...