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...Philip's best-known projects is the Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947), where Manhattan Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and a staff of 25 give psychiatric help, at 25? a session, to anyone, black or white. The clinic began in 1946 as a collaboration between Father Bishop, Psychiatrist Wertham and Negro Author Richard (Native Son) Wright. Nowadays, an average of 60 people a week come to the clinic for help...
...stylized technique of the play, it seemed acceptable that none of the other characters ever did anything about his mental condition. On the screen, he is still speaking his disordered thoughts at the top of his lungs. But to the literal eye of the camera, the ranting salesman (Fredric March) seems so appallingly extreme a mental case that it becomes hard to believe that his wife, sons or neighbors would not rush him to an asylum. The madman in Loman, as he is played in this film, is constantly overshadowing the man himself...
...film's worst drawbacks: Fredric March in the key role. Trying to convey Willy's shambling desperation, March never shakes off the appearance of an actor calculatedly playing a part; sometimes, in slurred speech and maudlin gestures, his calculation is so wide of the mark that fie seems to be trying to play a drunk...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). The Speech with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge...
...Autumn Garden offers, along with the assured and vital gifts of an experienced playwright, the wavering and uncertain movement of a transitional play. It is greatly enhanced by the production: by Harold Clurman's staging, Howard Bay's set, the acting of Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Ethel Griffies, Jane Wyatt, and most of all Joan Lorring in the difficult role of the niece...