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...hero of Fry's romantic comedy is a Thomas Mendip, played by John Gielgud. Mendip, a discharged soldier of 15th century England, is fed up with the stupidity of mankind and the dreariness of existence. he barges into the home of the Mayer of Cool Clary one April afternoon, and asks to be hanged. This unprecedented request is ignored by the mayor, whose credo throughout the entire play is "everything will be taken case of at the proper time...
...note to be represented is Clifford Odets, whose "The Country Girl," starring Uta Hagen, will open October 16. Beyond any doubt, however, the British are the guests of honor this season. Christopher Fry, the brilliant English playwright, will have two productions: "The Lady's Not for Burning," with John Gielgud, in late October, and Neva Patterson in "Ring Round the Moon," which will probably be booked for November. Both plays have already proved highly successful in London. Another British import will be D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in October --good news for Gilbert & Sullivan enthusiasts. "The Late Edwina Black...
...score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...work, which earlier this year kept four London theaters busy at once, had driven critics close to poetry themselves to do him credit. After seeing The Lady's Not For Burning, with which Actor-Manager John Gielgud introduced Fry to the public last spring, the Sunday Times's Harold Hobson wrote: "[It seemed] that the aurora borealis had turned humorist. Mr. Fry jests with Stardust, and is witty in iambics . . . He is a master jeweler...
After he had lit up the skies over London, the young actor appeared for the next few seasons as the Ghost in John Gielgud's "Hamlet." ("Gielgud is still the best Hamlet. Of course, I won't even count that movie version.") In 1936, he appeared in the role he has enjoyed most, Peer Gynt, in the 5-hour version. He made numerous movies about this time, none worthy of expert. The only American play in which he has appeared was O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1938. He prefers to see American plays done by Americans, because...