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Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Sheridan's School for Scandal, with Leueen MacGrath and Margalo Gillmore...
...rare ones it has. It is rather a shame that the production has just the earthiness needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...
...glorify himself and Edward, Boult stops at nothing. He betrays and bullies his gentle wife (Deborah Kerr), who ends up as a maudlin drunkard. He deserts his mistress (Leueen MacGrath), and drives his old friend and partner (Mervyn Johns) to suicide. As the movie ends, both Edward and his wife are dead, but Boult, still obsessed with the pursuit of self-perpetuation, is ready to begin a search for Edward's illegitimate child...
...misses much of the substance and savor of the role. His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated badinage in Miss MacGrath's sitting room-he is beyond his depth. As his sensitive but spineless wife, Miss Kerr reels in much of the slack of Tracy's performance with ease and authority. Except for some tasteless exaggeration of dress and manner in her final drunken scenes, her performance...
...Take It With You); and Leueen MacGrath, 35, blonde British actress