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Married. Pablo Casals, 80, famed expatriate Spanish cellist; and Martita Montañez, 20, of Puerto Rico, his fourth wife and his student for the past three years; in San Juan...
...long as Folly to be Wise sticks to its farcical panel show and Sim's fumblings, the film displays the flimsy plot of James Birdie's play, It Depends What You Mean, to best advantage. Moreover, it brings to the screen such engaging people as Martita Hunt, an English dowager, and Roland Culver, the caustic artist. But coupled with these unlikely characters are supposedly real people, a secretary and her beau, who want to know what marriage really means...
...from the wings he calls a cast that looks as if it had been waiting there since Wycherley's last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes: a beach picnic, as airily languid as the colored soap bubbles blown by a Mexican girl, and a muddled wedding party, alive with tears and frayed tempers. Oliver...
...source of TV drama by buying an option on all the plays of the late George Bernard Shaw. This week, on the last show of the current Omnibus season, televiewers will see the first of the Shaw plays: Arms and the Man, starring Walter Slezak and Martita Hunt...