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...brilliant, bare-stage reading of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951). Flushed by such success, Producer Paul Gregory has launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout the U.S. to the tune of such critical cries from local critics as "thrilling," "stirring...
...sensing some promotion material, Groucho decided to ask five Shakespearean authorities for their opinions, wrote letters to Actors Laurence Olivier, Walter Hampden, Charles Laughton and Critics Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts. Their replies...
...Laughton: "This has long been one of the argumentative points in Shakespearean literature . . . In my opinion, the correct answer would have been Falstaff...
...contrast to this, both Charles Laughton and David Wayne soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not as easy as one might think. Blending pathos with humor, Laughton steals an umbrella, breaks a window, swindles a restaurant--all unnoticed by the police. In the best tradition of O. Henry irony, he is nabbed just when he decides to turn respectable...
More successful than the rather floridly filmed drama and melodrama of these three is the comedy of two other episodes. The Cop and the Anthem wisely casts Charles Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A burlesqued version of The Ransom of Red Chief presents Fred Allen and Oscar Levant as dour confidence men who, after making the mistake of kidnaping a little monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry...