Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Great Adventure, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...Brattle Theatre has extended invitations to Rex Harrison, Joyce Redman, Jane Pickens, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Cheryl Crawford, and other actors and producers currently presenting plays locally, to be their guests at a newly established Sunday evening "Star Night." The purpose is to allow them to see other plays on their night off, Brattle being the only local theater running Sundays...
...Behrman. Mr. Behrman has been responsible for some of the more delightful and urbane comedies that have flitted across our stage in the past years and that he has not lost his touch was evident Monday night. That the stars of "I Know My Love"--Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne--have not lost their touch for making Mr. Behrman's lines (or anyone else's) seem like something much more wonderful and witty than they could possibly be, was also again evident...
...fact, once the dazzle of the Lunt's presence has been removed, the whole play seems pretty muddled. There's a good supply of wit all right, but there are a couple of important characters who keep popping up during the play for the apparent purpose of showing that their lives have been ruined by Tom and Emily Chanler. Actually, the seeds of dissipation and destruction are within themselves, and the Chanlers, despite the accusations and confessions, are blameless...
...hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill (a London import); a Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth; Garson Kanin's The Rat Race...