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...There and Back," a ten-minute opera by Paul Hindemith, is more than merely clever--it is funny. The plot involves a husband (Barry Morley) who learns of the infidelity of his wife (Janet Wheeler). He shoots her and jumps out the window. At this point the lights dim, and a wise man (Robert Simon) appears. "Let us reverse this fate and make things turn back," he says. The husband jumps back in the window, and the action shifts into reverse, ending as it began. Obviously, the situation has almost limitless potentialities, most of which were realized in the performance...
...book. The Ant World (Penguin Books; 50?), British Entomologist Derek Wragge Morley keeps insisting that ants are ants, and must not be confused with humans. But readers who follow him on his rounds through the cities of the ants will find many reminders of human behavior...
...Arthur Sullivan, Maurice Evans does his usual deft job of playing Maurice Evans-a personage hardly sufficient to hold the stage against the powerful presence of Robert Morley. As W. S. Gilbert, Morley fairly strides out of the frame, like an ancestral portrait from Ruddigore...
...comedy of situation rips wildly into farce, or a comedy of manners lurches hilariously toward madness. The play remains part of a fashionable tradition which slices its amusement as paper-thin as its sandwiches, and-for success-demands a special type of flawless acting. In London, with Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel and David Tomlinson, The Little Hut presumably had it; but on Broadway an uninspired cast makes for unamusing castaways...
...real life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career in Paris); a rich London playboy (John Justin), who helped her get started on her career; and an amorous hotelkeeper (Alec Clunes). Also figuring in the film: Impresario Oscar Hammerstein (Robert Morley). who is depicted as intent on bringing Melba to the U.S., and Queen Victoria (Sybil Thorndike), for whom she sings at Windsor Castle...