Word: druten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John van Druten's smash comedy, The Voice of the Turtle, cost $25,000 to produce. Last week Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. offered it to Hollywood for $3 million. This unheard-of price involved an unprecedented deal. To the buyer would go not only the coveted film rights, but the play itself-the current Broadway production, probable future productions in Chicago and London, the road, stock, amateur, radio and television rights...
...Voice of the Turtle (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) offers the season's smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
Climbing back from its poor work on "Strictly Dishonorable," the Cambridge Summer theatre this week puts on a production that is, in spite of its expected roughness, enjoyable and fairly well-acted. The play is "Old Acquaintance", a pleasant comedy by John Van Druten...
...Damask Cheek (by John van Druten & Lloyd Morris; Produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) gives Broadway its first polite comedy this season. It also gives menacing Actress Flora Robson (Ladies in Retirement, Anne of England) her first ingratiating role. She shows that she can handle comedy as well as emotion, sweetness as well as strength all in one evening...
...Druten's deft writing and direction have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez...