Word: loder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silver Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Four of a Kind, with Faye Emerson, John Loder...
...Loder's interpretation is faultless. His comic timing is just about perfect, and his lines come out with the right mixture of straight-man and exaggeration to put them over, though occasionally he speaks too fast...
When the curtain slipped down with John Loder and Sylvia Sidney in the third-act clinch of "O Mistress Mine," my throat was a little hoarse from laughing, but I had a vague notion that I had been gypped. For the first two acts of the play I thought I was enjoying not only a genuinely laughable piece, but a comedy which was even sounder for recognizing a human problem and treating it with sympathy. But the final resolution is just a magical blend of cajolery and near-fraud that makes Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" merely another very...
...didn't see the Lunts do this play, and it's hard to say how much of the staging is theirs and how much director Harald Bromley added, but the effect is well-knit and unobtrusive. I suspect the Lunts' edge over the Sidney-Loder duo was in making every shot count; some humorously intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long...
...comedy she brightens has her seeking shelter, during a thunderstorm, in the country house of a famous, something-over-40 actor (John Loder). It has her staying on, as his secretary, after the sun comes out; and it poses the problem-an old one for broadish comedy-of how long an attractive and attracted man and girl can live together without living together. Before uniting them legally at the final curtain, Playwright Herbert keeps them apart a bit lewdly for almost three acts. He manages to squeeze a few amusing moments out of their immaculate proximity by shamelessly tossing...