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...MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, power fully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil...
...MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with a sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, powerfully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil...
Rossif is plainly with the Republicans. As the film opens the camera moves slowly over the land, while the commentary, narrated, among others, by John Gielgud and Irene Worth, begins: "Twenty-four million people ... 12 million illiterate . . . half of Spain is owned by 20,000 people." Scenes of old farmers and young boys, clumsily drilling in work clothes, grinning with hope as they go to the front, running helter-skelter into battle, are intercut with shots of Franco's disciplined soldiers and Hitler's crack Condor Legion. At war's end, boys and grizzled men are marched...
Worst hit were the serious dramas. Fourteen opened, and all failed. The longest, Tiny Alice, lasted but 20 weeks, its tenure stretched by the fine acting of John Gielgud and Irene Worth, and Author Edward Albee's teasing defenses. Musicals, which made up nearly a third of the new offerings, did little better. The most literate, Oh What a Lovely War, never saw its fifth month; pure hokum promoted Baker Street toward the winner's circle, and Fiddler on the Roof, skimming the surface of a Sholom Aleichem story, became the smash of the season...
...Arthur John Gielgud, LL.D., actor-director. Restoration beau and antique Roman, Edwardian dandy and, above all, sable-suited Dane...