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...Doctor Astrov, Robert Jordan is extraordinarily right. His skillful make-up helps his exceptional voice and delightful, slightly grand manner; he becomes both noble and sad, within seriousness, especially in his most effective scene, and displays a remarkable facility in portraying comedy where he is drunk. As Vanya, John Mautner is at moments persuasive. His performance vacillates uneasily, however, and his awkward arms and constantly nervous voice and eyes were occasionally distracting. Even if Vanya is nervous, Mautner could well be more relaxed...
...part calls for an empty-headed doll who hides the murder of her child underneath an appearance of innocence, she can contribute only a sort of statusque intensity. But she tries hard, and at some moments brings her role to life. The only other member of the cast, John Mautner, manages to get some humor into his portrayal of an attendant in hell. Much of the success of all these actors can be credited to director Jay Shuchter, who also prevented the small size of the stage from creating a feeling of claustrophobia...
Last week, in the Manhattan office of Sid Mautner, boss of International News Photos, the phone rang. It was Mike Chinigo calling from Rome. Said he: "Well, I have it!" Replied Mautner: "You have what?" Said Chinigo: "The first pictures of the Bergman baby." On their way to Manhattan by air, explained Chinigo, were eleven exclusive 35-mm. pictures...
...splash. Taken by talented Papa Rossellini himself, they showed a lovely Bergman in short hairdo and maternal mood, a generally solemn-eyed baby. (But in one six-picture sequence, four-month-old Renato obligingly worked himself up to a bellylaugh under his father's skilled direction.) When Editor Mautner heard what Bureau Chief Chinigo had paid for the pictures, he redoubled his congratulations. The price: not one thin lira...
...Mautner Center...