Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the theater's Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne took to the air last week, the result was added proof that radio acting is a specialized art, that great ability on the stage is no guarantee of a payoff before the microphone. For Russian War Relief (WOR-Mutual) and The Cavalcade of America (NBC) respectively the lusty pair played a Russian metalworker & wife, a Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death...
...produced by The Playwrights' Company & The Theater Guild) is the season's gayest bore. Everything conceivable has been done to make it seem that Playwright Behrman has really written a play. The sets are charming. The incidental music is lively. The costumes are gorgeous. Above all, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne-he at his most swashbuckling, she at her most mischievous-romp and cavort for all they are worth...
...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...
...manner of "The Pirate" were meant to be, its three acts could not quite decide. For in his latest "extravaganza" S. N. Behrman has put together an incongruous conglomeration of purposes and a complete lack of originality which even occasionally witty repartee, lavish production, and the adequate acting of Lunt and Fontanne cannot rescue...
...Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne breeze through the lines with their usual versatility, assisted by a consistently good company. Playing the leader of a troupe of players with the same, vivacity that won him acclaim in "Amphitryon 38," Mr. Lunt is agile and amusing. He brightens up the stage with his flourishes and his tricks, spinning back and forth, "like a top." Miss Fontanne is demure and lovely as the romantic wife of a prosaic husband. Jack Smart excels as the dull West Indian Babbitt with the tyrannical past of a pirate...