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...stage piece. The Man in the Dog Suit is not without virtues. Hume Cronyn brings to the title role the sort of skill that can dramatize a problem and humanize a scene, and Jessica Tandy is engaging as the wife. Some of their scenes together flash with intensity as well as theater; Carmen Mathews has a funny interlude as a drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales...
...Students are more interested in this than in Hume," says Professor Earle. "Sartre is not a great classical philosopher, but he is interesting. And if philosophy isn't interesting, it is a burden...
...whereas a lot of modern philosophy doesn't have anything to do with anything anybody is interested in. There are uncountable 'problems' in philosophy, but some questions we don't care to know the answer to. Everybody is just about fed up with the traditional problems brought up by Hume, for instance...
...Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon rank with earlier Stevens' successes-Four Poster, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...Saragossa, Spain, saturnine Cinemactor George Sanders, 52, onetime husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said that he and Old Friend Benita Hume Colman, 51, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman, would be wed "in about six months." Acknowledged his intended: "I'm enchanted with the whole thing, but there is no hurry about...