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...Broadway THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Pérignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...
...reasons. Playwright Enid Bagnold loves the English language with rare fidelity, and in the present semi-illiterate state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience. Equally indispensable is an actress who can do no wrong from first entrance to final curtain. Margaret Leighton's eyes are wounds of inner pain, her hair is a glimmering tiara, her voice is Baccarat crystal. She could carry a continent, let alone a play...
...meant to write about, but unwittingly, or so it seems, her play is about the youth complex. The notion of a woman of 70 setting out to find the "real me" would be ludicrous and pathetic if it were not camouflaged by Bagnold's word incense and Leighton's stage magic. What the Margaret Leighton character wants is not to accept the past but to erase it, to be 17 again with all its romantic second chances, or else to live where age enjoys the prestige of youth, symbolized by a mythical figure of her own dream world...
Afterward he spread-eagled his arms and gloated: "Now I can say I kissed the Governor of California." He was once married to Margaret Leighton (they played opposite each other in As You Like It). Now Harvey lives in the $1,000,000 Beverly Hills hut of blonde and sumptuous Joan Cohn, 42-year-old widow of Harry Cohn, the onetime king of Columbia Pictures. Inside this off-white, Louis XV lair, Harvey whispers apologetically to visitors, "This isn't really my taste. It isn't really...
...knitting of woolly middle-class values in English suburbia. Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, not yet produced in London, is about an old actress facing assorted personal problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open...