Word: rattigan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girl Who Came to Supper will make the average theatrical gourmet yearn for the company of the late Monty Woolley. Even in his grave, George S. Kaufman could think up funnier lines than Harry Kurnitz has been able to confect for this musical adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince. And Noel Coward could have given Supper some Noel Coward songs, instead of the badly toasted marshmelodies he actually provided for it. This part of Broadway can legitimately be declared a disaster area, except for those involuntary rescue squads, the theater parties, which will keep the show green...
...Terence Rattigan. Last season Charles Boyer starred in Lord Pengo, a tracing-paper-thin characterization of Art Wheeler-Dealer Jo seph Duveen. Boyer was slyly fascinating; the play provoked yawns. In Man and Boy, Boyer plays Gregor Antonescu, a blurry blotting-pad version of the 20th century's master swindler, Ivar Kreuger. Boyer makes a charming cad; the play is a jaw-aching bore. If the evening proves anything, it is merely that actors who are graded 100 for talent sometimes get zero for judgment...
Playwright Rattigan's judgment ranks little higher. In a crucial scene, he asks the playgoer to believe that the homosexual president of a mammoth U.S. corporation would blandly ignore a $6,000,000 auditing discrepancy in Antonescu's books just to get the telephone number of a boy who has taken his fancy. The boy (Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final...
Orson Welles does a magnificent takeoff on Orson Welles. In short, thanks partly to a couple of big fat camera hogs and partly to a tidy script by Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, The V.I.P.s is on the whole an entertaining film. The poor, that is to say, should find it entertaining; the rich may find it less than flattering. Director Anthony Asquith seems to agree with the fellow who remarked: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he has given...
...John Osborne's verse play, directed by Tony Richardson (Sept. 25). Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal, is about a count who democratically seduces a young nursemaid only to encounter the rage of both his wife and mistress for betraying his class (Sept. 23). British Playwright Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy stars Charles Boyer as a Wall Street operator who creeps off to Greenwich Village to live in the pad of his apostate son during the Depression (Nov. 12). Arnold Wesker's Chips with Everything, hugely successful in London, deals with the operation of the class...