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...world, but not willing to forgo it for simple, pure art. He builds the fantasy around a legend, implied, and a ghost, who appears. The first line began the general confusion. "Once there was 'a Chinese emporer, who never died because he never lived," said Allyn Moss, the one-woman chorus. This prepared the audience for a highly symbolic piece with the result that it tried to read a deep meaning into every line and missed the mood, only weakly created by the actors. Lyon Phelps played the artist as unconvincingly as possible and also directed the piece. Quincy Howe...
Actress Young is seldom out of Director Tay Garnett's camera; her excellent acting almost turns Cause for Alarm! into a one-woman show. But a tight script by Mel (The Window) Dinelli and Producer Tom Lewis also contains rounded minor roles, unusually well played by Margalo Gillmore as a garrulous busybody and Irving Bacon as a footsore postman slogging toward his pension...
...champagne or a little white wine & soda, a drinking regimen he still faithfully follows. He had met and married his fifth and present wife-a pretty, blonde exactress named Grace Bradley, who stayed with him when the going was toughest and converted him into the most faithful of one-woman men. And as far as the public was concerned, he had virtually assumed a new identity-that of Hopalong Cassidy...
...House of Representatives' committee on national defense investigated. Fifty-two-year-old Mrs. Planas, a willing witness, testified that she had bought the war materials legally from the Philippine Surplus Property Commission last October. But two other witnesses slightly changed the formidable picture of Mrs. Planas as a one-woman arsenal. Said her son Alberto: "My mother is a sick woman. There's really nothing in our depots that the army can use-just a pile of junk." Said her daughter Carmen: "Mother's ... 1,000 tanks are fictitious...
Since she has played in these one-woman dramas for more than fifteen years, Miss Skinner undoubtedly knows their limitations. As vehicles for tourde-force acting, however, they are in perfect order. And, as an actress of virtuoso brilliance, Miss Skinner probably also realizes that she could make a successful evening out of a mono-dramatization of Harvard's "Catalogue of Courses"--with selections from "Parictal Rules" as a spicy epilogue...