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The most dazzling facet of the new production is Charles Laughton's performance as Undershaft. He is as suave, smiling, easy of manner as he is pointed and cutting in effect. And given Shaw's fireworks, he contrives no histrionics. As the play's director, on the...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (Sun. 3:30 p.m., ABC). New medical research series, with Dr. Milton Eisenhower.
For his first independent film production, the man one show-business wag has referred to, with friendly incredulity, as "Todd Almighty," assembled no fewer than 46 stars of stage, screen, radio and TV. Among the hit-players: Charles Boyer, Joe E. Brown, Martine Carol, John Carradine. Charles Coburn, Ronald Colman...
Solid Cement. The building-materials industry was also a mixed bag. Despite peak sales, Johns-Manville reported a drop in third-quarter income to $6,967,861 v. $7,178,801 a year ago. But the cementmakers were up: Consolidated Cement netted $584,400 v. $465,200 a year ago...
Laughton's production, while it makes all these ideas tangible, gives the actors a peculiar kind of challenge. They must rely on their voices and Shaw's lines to project the matter of the play, rather than on movement or color or the suspense of a tight plot. Laughton handles...