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...Rough" is the term usually applied to productions like Pl Eta's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
...less boisterous is Pardon Our French (Broadway Theatre, B'way and 53rd), the now Olsen and Johnson explosion featuring Denise Darcel...
Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...
...acting of the other three principals, William Holden, Erie von Strohieim, and Nancy Olsen is also commendable as is that of the minor characters. Von Stroheim plays the part of Miss Swanson's devoted servant who was also the director who originally "discovered her" and became her first husband. Holden, the script writer whose inability to get anywhere leads to his becoming Miss Swanson's "kept man," suffers through this indignity with a convincing series of pained expressions and outbursts, while his voice narrates the story from a "there I was, what-could-I-do" point of view. Miss Olsen...
...Carl Olsen announced yesterday that he will not be coaching the freshman track team next year. His present squad had a perfect spring record. No new coach has been appointed...