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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun 10 p.m., ABC). Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, with John Gielgud and other members of the Broadway cast...
...Manhattan, red-haired Renee Carroll, "the best-known hat-check girl in America," celebrated 20 years of profitable (about $200 a week) tip-taking at famed Sardi's Restaurant by tipping the customers. Her tip to each: 25?. Total cost: $50. The most astonished customer: English actor John Gielgud, who recoiled and cried: "Is this the custom here...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
...also farce at its most elegant- as insolently monocled in manner and as killingly high-toned in language as mischievous tomfoolery can make it. Three-fourths of the fun is lost if its monkeyshines are not performed as gravely as minuets. Actor-Director Gielgud's production, unlike most, is well aware of this. Until near the end of the play (when everyone indulges in a little burlesque), the cast plays with very straight faces and very grand airs; and the effect is delightful...
...Gielgud is currently appearing in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest," at the Plymouth Theater in Boston. This is his first American season of comedy...