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Started two years ago on a shoestring by Actor-Coach Vladimir Sokoloff, the Beachwood Theater Studio has tried out plays by such big names as Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) and Elliott Nugent (The Male Animal) with only mild success. With Cry Havoc it will move this month from its tiny stage to a full-sized Los Angeles theater...
Philip Barry really had something in "Philadelphia Story." Eliot Nugent made a Broadway hit out of "Male Animal." Katherine Hepburn knocked her second home run in a row when she put "Woman of the Year" on celluloid. The combination should have been a sure-fire-blue-ribbon-on-the-nose-double-or-quits royal straight flush. But somehow two and two doesn't seem to make four in the theatre world. It makes a small fraction of one, called "Without Love...
...hard to know just who to blame for this play. Everybody knows about the red haired Virgin Goddess from Connecticut. You can take her or leave her. Most people want to take her. And Nugent-well, he has a rare sense of comedy, a loping walk, a straightforward manner that is tailor-made to unfreeze the sort of female Hepburn usually plays. Neither of them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama...
...last vehicle told about Philadelphia. Miss Hepburn, rich daughter of a deceased senator and young widow of a man she had loved with a love to end all loves, is living in her Washington mansion the way Queen victoria lived in Windsor Castle after Vincent Price died. Eliot Nugent, sworn off of love since his best girl ditched him in Paris, is in our nation's capital trying to solve the "Irish question." Nugent gets into Hepburn's mansion (i.e, on stage) by taking her drunken cousin home from a wedding. He stays for the night, and you learn...
...twist, because the audience knows it before the end of the first act. Hepburn doesn't even unfreeze gracefully. She just melts. And the Irish question is not only dragged in by the heels,--it is hung by the neck. Everything seems artificially contrived to get Hepburn and Nugent in a drawing room together, and when they get there they don't do anything...