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...incident was characteristic. Alec Guinness is a public recluse in the grand theatrical tradition of Maude Adams, Greta Garbo and Paul Muni. And shut up in the passionate reserve is one of the most difficult, complex and enigmatic Englishmen who ever reached for the rouge. "A dark horse," says Sir Laurence Olivier, "a deep one." Director David (Kwai) Lean adds: "Alec is one of the most fantastically knotted-up men I know." And all agree with the actor who called him "the best-kept secret of modern times, a sort of one-man Tibet...
Inherit the Wind, based on the Scopes trial, consists of a lot of pseudo-legal hot air that makes very effective drama. Melvyn Douglas, who inherited Paul Muni's New York role as Clarence Darrow, blows well and lustily. At the Shubert at 8:30 p.m., tomorrow...
...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...
...Darrow, Paul Muni snorts and paces and glares, lifts indignant agnostic eyes toward heaven, heaps anti-Biblical fire and brimstone on the pious, and slowly reduces Bryan to a mental pulp and physical exhaustion. A wonderful example of the high hamming that is equally the forte of skilled actors and skilled trial lawyers, it makes Muni and Darrow indistinguishable. Ed Begley's Bryan is excellent also, though this is a more benign figure at the trial than the Bryan who, as H. L. Mencken watched him, "writhed and tossed in a very fury of malignancy," and not quite...
...hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a spiritual oasis where they may find peace and the wisdom of their ancestors...