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Background for all this is a lush setting which may be one of the last glimpses of old-style Hollywood opulence that cinema audiences will have for the duration. Happy Go Lucky also has love potions, sultry calypso songs and dances by a group of Trinidadians headed by "Sir Launcelot" Pinard, some first-rate Frank Loesser...
...great lovers of history met with difficulty. Romeo, who wooed so swiftly, found death so soon. Tristan, who wooed unwisely, found death unmerciful. Juliet could not live without Romeo, and Isolde swooned upon the corpse of Tristan and breathed her last. And Launcelot swooned (Ye Gods, how they swooned!) when Guinevere was placed in her grave, and he sickened and pined away...
...Pussyfoot was attacking with all his forces. America had just succumbed; the swords and lances of blue-nosed morality and pseudo-science were hacking and slashing at Merrie England. A noble tradition was in peril--who would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects...
Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
...remainder of the cast unfortunately falls below the level of the principles, although Maury Tuckerman as Launcelot Gobbo and Geoffrey Ward well as Bassanio are above the average. The opening performance was marred by several of the minor characters forgetting their lines and a general uncertainty about the mechanics of the piece, but with a few more performances, the entire cast should be able to support Mr. Moscovitch adequately. The use of the same scenery used by George Arliss several years ago provides a very beautiful background upon which to present so much good acting. If the company...