Word: lunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
...Durance, and ranging from Cole Porter tunes to an all-Negro Carmen-are already set, scheduled, or signed for. There will be more vaudeville. There will be comedies by Lindsay & Grouse (the adapters of Life With Father), John Van Druten, Philip Barry (starring Katharine Hepburn), S. N. Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME...
Moderately famed for his souffles, Actor Alfred Lunt turned cooking instructor, took on a class of 50 beginners for a three-week course in everything from soft-boiled eggs to risotto. The $10 tuitions go to the American Theater Wing's war work. Among his pupils: wife Lynn Fontanne, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Peggy Wood, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. Brock Pemberton...