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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...
...which Brecht wants to impart in The Measures Taken are lessons which the Common Room audience could or should take seriously? If the answer in either case is yes, the directors failed on stage to explain why. Without that explanation their two weeks' toil seemed flat and offensive, or cute and inapplicable. Fox didn't sense the internal theatricality of The Measures Taken, and grew sententious about its external poignancy. Odets' play has neither, so Rosaldo at least had a little...
Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...
Love for Love, a comedy written by Mr. Congreve, is now being produced at the Loeb by Messrs. Vachon, Chapman, Soule and Warburg and by Mrs. Liepmann. They have no first names, or at least the program, a self-consciously cute tribute to Restoration taste, omits them. Unamused but undaunted, I am able to report to you that the Messrs. and the Mrs. have designed and constructed the most pleasing theatrical evening on the main stage this year...
Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...