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Love for Love (by William Congreve; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) makes up the second half of English Actor John Gielgud's "Season of comedy" on Broadway. It is not Gielgud's better half; but, after all, Gielgud's Importance of Being Earnest was far & away the most brilliant revival of the season. Earnest, moreover, is only 52 years old; Love for Love, 252. For its age, Love for Love gets around on a Broadway stage very nicely...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Three Men on a Horse, Sam. Levene, Shirley Booth, David Wayne...
...this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three corpses, the Los Angeles police force, and the old bulldog's unpleasant son (Conrad Janis). In the long...
...main things that is intended to be exciting about this adaptation of Novelist Chandler's The High Window is the spectacle of a pretty girl learning, ever so shyly, how to enjoy being touched. Miss Guild has considerable prettiness and a kind of puppyish innocence in these scenes, but they are still somewhat embarrassing. Mr. Montgomery is a little too suave and petulant to be convincing as Marlowe. There are, however, some fair bursts of violence and some good sets...
Kingsblood Royal (which is the Literary Guild's choice for June) is a novel chiefly in the sense that it contains some of the most artificial fiction, dressed in the worst prose, that "Red" Lewis has ever written. In essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused...