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Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (Elsa Lanchester; Hifirecords LP). A fey, offbeat collection of songs both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
...extremity of adult reaction against the Presley phenomena has made impartial judgement of Elvis' singing almost impossible. "Big El" has become more intellectually respectable in recent months as Estes Kefauver, Charles Laughton, Burl Ives, and the New York Times have expressed their approval, but the quality of Presley's singing is not by any means fully appreciated...
Washington Square (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Ray Bolger, with Charles Laughton to help...
Trampled & Triumphant. This week Charles Laughton will join Bolger in a floppy London music-hall version of With a Little Bit of Luck, from My Fair Lady. Tipping a pixy toe at his audience, Bolger will also invite a nostalgic following to join him in the happy choruses of Once in Love with Amy, a great vaudeville song from his 1948 Broadway hit, Where's Charley...
...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 other hand, he has invented as many tricks of staging as has Shaw of thought. For a while the two showmen get in each other's way, though eventually they set each other off. This is partly owing to an accomplished cast, including Glynis Johns, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach...