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Theatre of the Piccoli (produced by Cheryl Crawford) is-mechanically speaking-the world's greatest marionette show. Last seen on Broadway in 1934, Vittorio Podrecca's marionettes returned last week to demonstrate once more an art whose masters require 20 years of apprenticeship. No suitcase theatre, but a vast marionet-work involving three miles of string, over 800 wooden performers and 20-odd flesh-&-blood puppeteers, the Piccoli offers a bill as long and elaborate as a Broadway revue...
Died. David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, 69, Premier Earl of Scotland, 18 years an elected member of Parliament, onetime Lord Privy Seal, elder brother of Sir Ronald Lindsay; of pneumonia; in Wigan, England...
From somewhere in Manhattan a "Mr. Crawford" sent Singer Lotte Lehmann a magnum of champagne, 72 roses and an apology. Late one night Singer Lehmann's telephone had buzzed, a stern voice had said: "This is Mr. Crawford of NBC. Why haven't you appeared for the March of Dimes broadcast? It starts in three minutes." Sleepy Miss Lehmann sang Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes into the telephone, later learned that there was no Mr. Crawford at NBC. With the champagne and roses Mr. Crawford sent a note, written on Hotel Waldorf-Astoria stationery: "With these...
Another Sun (by Dorothy Thompson & Fritz Kortner; produced by Cheryl Crawford). When Dorothy Thompson attacks Naziism in her famed column On the Record, she is one of the deadliest haters now writing. But when, last week, she attacked it in her first play, she seemed tame as tea and weak as water. A dull, dawdling tale of refugee theatre folk in Manhattan at the time of Anschluss (Co-Playwright Kortner is himself a refugee actor). Another Sun told of their hopes & fears and of the dilemma of the most famous of them, who, unable to get work...
...love between Tsar Alexander II and Princess Dolgoruki is told tenderly and tearfully in "Katia," the new French film at the Fine Arts. A gushing romance not entirely free from 10c novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps because Alexandrine Russia...