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...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
...counting, no one seems to have noticed the stubborn absence of humor or the manic mugging by the star, Louis de Funès, whose exertions make Jerry Lewis look, by comparison, like Alfred Lunt. De Funès likes to pop his eyes out, fast and wide, like two billiard balls bouncing off the side cushion. He is ever choleric, his veins on the point of rupture, like a man who has been mud-splattered by the bus he just missed...
...woman heroine of Shaw's Candida. Not about to be upstaged at home, Kit jauntily raised ANTA'S gold medal to her eye like a monocle while a telegram from the only previous winners of the award was read to "We're so proud," cabled Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, "to be at last in your Company...
While the two leads can scarcely dispel the powerful memory of the 1958 Lunt-Fontanne production, they establish their own interpretations with unstrained validity. Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully...
...very disappointing, so I rang him up. "Is that all I get?a lousy $290?" I asked. The producer testily explained that this was the customary fee given to all the artists who appear on the Cavett show. "That's what we paid Sir Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Sir John Gielgud." Well frankly," I retorted. " I don't see why people like Noel, Al, Jack and I should?" He hung...