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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross Country" is producer Max Liebman's baby. He was the director and producer of last season's popular television show, "Broadway Revue," as well as a contributor to Broadway's "Call Me Mister" and "Make Mine Manhattan." His customary emphasis on dancing is evident in his latest effort. Nelle Fisher's energetic and skillful choreography is what makes the show tick. Her dancing, and that of Jerry Ross, former lead in "Call Me Mister," is fast, slick, and entertaining...
...good will and learning tour was planned in 1939 but was delayed ten years by the war. This year's 29 students were chosen from a total of 300 who applied for the chance to make the trip...
Something Practical. Chatting with Firbank was hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
Novelist Moravia (who anomalously gives his unschooled protagonist his own clarity of thought and narration) has peppered The Woman of Rome with flashes of wisdom that seem like borrowed pearls as simple Adriana threads them: "We never get clear, definite changes in life; and those who do make hurried changes risk seeing their old habits come to the fore once again, still alive and as deep-rooted as ever." Those who want to read universal meanings into this couch-worn tale will have to do it at the level of amorality where only the Adrianas of the world can move...
Aside from the plot situation, "The Guardsman" has very little wit, though the Brattle Players frequently make it seem so. With them for this show as a guest actress, is Viola Roache, who gives a sturdily humorous performance as the quasi-"Mama" to Miss Farrand. Other highlights of the evening are contributed by Jeanne Tufts as a theater usher, and by Eleanor MacLean as Liesl, the maid. Miss MacLean's name has been on the Brattle programs before, but always in the capacity of wardrobe mistress. If this is a promotion, it is certainly a just one, for her maid...