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Before the Brattle's last performance, Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, one could see the difference in attitude between the old Brattle the company and those who were there for this play alone. Zero Mostel, a Broadway and Holly wood comedian, was the featured performer, and he was enthusiastic about the theatre and angered that it had never gotten outside financial support...
...disenchanted mistress of an idealistic French colonel (Lee J. Cobb), and the scene is Damascus in 1925 under the cloud of bitter French-Syrian warfare. Gun-Runner Bogart runs afoul of Colonel Cobb in both love & war, while a murky gallery of black marketeers, informers and Arabian fanatics (Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, et al.) snuffles ominously through the background...
...where it counts most in building tension for the whole movie. The murder retailers do such a big business over such a short period that the picture gets a bit silly when it ought to be chilling. But it never gets dull. The thugs (notably Ted de Corsia, Zero Mostel, Everett Sloane) are well cast and played. Even Tough Guy Bogart, in a role happily without romantic attachments, seems shocked by the lethal goings...
...Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath, and Avon Long as Careless Love and Zero Mostel in the role of Hamilton Peachum come through with excellent characterizations. On the dancing side, Marjorie Belle, blonde and diminutive danseuse, is insciously graceful indeed, her gorgeous gyrations highlighting much of the second act. Libby Holman, featured female performer, disappoints with both her singing and acting as Miss Jenny...
Comedian Zero Mostel and race relations expert Carey McWilliams will speak at a Liberal Union supported rally of the Inter-Collegiate Committee to End Lynching, to eb held Saturday at Jordan Hall, it was announced by William H. Bozman '46, HLU president...