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While the Sun Shines (By Terence Rattigan; produced by Max Gordon) called forth critical comparisons with Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...
French Without Tears (Paramount) is based on Terence Rattigan's romantic farce about an attractive flirt (Ellen Drew), who runs amorously amok in a French school for future British diplomats. One of the pictures which under the present quota arrangements Paramount must make every year in England, French Without Tears has not been very vigorously exploited in the U. S.-as if the studio were a little ashamed of it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It rattles pleasantly enough down its well-worn groove, lubricated by a flow of bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver...
Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...
...Author Rattigan is 25. Three years ago his diplomat father, Frank Rattigan, C. M. G., gave him a year in which to prove himself better suited for playwriting than for the diplomatic service. Son Terence wrote six plays, collected five rejection slips. In November 1935, two weeks before Tyro Rattigan's year was up, French Without Tears was accepted, staged last year in London where it is still running. Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights...
College Sinners (by Terence Rattigan and Philip Heimann; produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert). This inconsequential, mildly entertaining gewgaw was called First Episode when it was produced in London. Importing it along with two or three players, the Brothers Shubert apparently decided that the title should name the ingredients. The "college" is Oxford; the sin is carnal, boyish and fumbled...