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Among the second-rank late-Elizabethan dramatists was a triumvirate of Thomases--Dekker, Heywood, and Middleton--all of whom expressed a rare deep sympathy with the common man. Of the three Dekker was the most gifted; and Wellesley's Group 20 has wisely chosen for this week's offering his 357-year-old comic masterpiece, The Shoemaker's Holiday (based on a story by another Thomas--Deloney...
...Brattle Theatre Company has shown in "The Country Girl" that Restoration comedy can be sparkling and enjoyable in modern hands, there is good reason to be disappointed in the current production of "The Roaring Girl." The major disappointment is the play itself. It is a farce by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, about an old man, his wayward son, and a town character known as Mad Moll, the roaring girl. There are some moments of delightful comedy during the evening, but most of the time the actions seem mere posturing and the words mere wind...
Fury at Furnace Creek (20th Century-Fox) is a better-than-average western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
...turns out, the Swede (screen newcomer Burt Lancaster) was a natural born fall guy. By the time such seasoned misbehaviorists as Albert Dekker and Ava Gardner are through with him, the double-and triple-crossings get so thick that his death seems about the only simple thing in his career...
...Austrian baron (Walter Slezak). Gary Grant is an Irish-American reporter who brings Miss Rogers to her senses, helps her to do a grand tour of wartime Europe. The pair are in on the kill of every European country from Austria to France. They dabble in espionage with Albert Dekker, and discover, at long last, that they are intended for each other...