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Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's expertly written Separate Tables, provided the Boston Summer Theatre with its best show of the season...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's masterfully written Separate Tables, are providing the Boston Summer Theatre with its best show of the season...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though it be, still has a point; and Rattigan, with a sure ear for dialogue, makes it clearly and movingly...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...Rattigan's expert script and Miss Page's phenomenal performances should not easily be passed...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...possibly." Then he began remixing a batch of anger in process called The Entertainer so that its lead-a sodden, cynical, third-rate music-hall trouper-would fit Sir Laurence. Last month, having just chucked a reported $250,000 by bowing out of a Hollywood film version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, Olivier startled Britain's effete theater world by accepting the Osborne role. In a small, dingy London house last week, Sir Laurence stepped onstage as The Entertainer at a salary of $126 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Most Angry Fella | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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