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AGES OF MAN (Columbia). Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare sampler is presented at roughly half the length at which it was seen last season on Broadway. Gielgud's voice is never a particularly impressive instrument, and when the going requires full bellows, it seems in danger of failing him altogether. But it still possesses what it demonstrated so triumphantly onstage-the ability to roll out some of the most famous lines in the language in a green-gaged glow of surprise...
...performance by Alec Guinness is a major event (though one may, as it turns out, be more major than another). For Guinness, together with Brando and Gielgud, constitute the reigning triumvirate of English-speaking actors...
...Greene two years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy" moving from glossy front-room comedy to boudoir farce...
...days of each other, Susskind was backing a sure thing. Meet Me matched the light-fingered direction of George (Green Pastures) Schaefer with a cameraful of Hollywood glamour: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Tab Hunter, Jane Powell, Ed Wynn. The Browning Version was also star-packed: Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John's every movement, every artful, effortless nuance of speech added...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.), starring Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton, in a superior version of The Browning Version, Terence Rattigan's sentimental play about an embittered British schoolmaster and the little boy who gives him back his self-respect...