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...problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because she loves animals...
Finally, Millar has misconstrued most of Snow's characters. Lewis Eliot, whom Millar has, for some reason, knighted, has become some sort of a passive Eric Portman figure, and no longer imposes any recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their...
Gypsy Cop Cars. Three police roles are the regular substance of the cast (Paul Burke, Horace MacMahon, Harry Bellaver). But the best evidence that Naked City is not just another cop show is its list of guest stars, which has included Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb. Maureen Stapleton, Eric Portman, Hume Cronyn, George...
...Passage to India attempts to translate into three acts the astringencies of E. M. Forster's renowned novel. Santha Rama Rau has done her adaptation with intelligence, and the acting-notably that of Eric Portman-is excellent. But the play is not entirely successful. The reduction in scale is true to the shape of the novel, but less broad, less deep...
...Chandrapore, Forster's provincial Indian town of the 1920s, the British raj condescendingly called social events attended by both races ''bridge parties." The play opens with such a party. Fielding (Portman), the government college principal and a man too decent to play raj, has invited a mixed bag to tea. Among his guests are a pair of British ladies-who want to see India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They...