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...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...
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...
...private throat (April 23). Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit becomes High Spirits, with Coward directing and Edward Woodward, Tammy Grimes and Beatrice Lillie carrying the tunes (March 31). Coward has also done the music and lyrics for The Girl Who Came to Supper, a musical version of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, starring José Ferrer (Nov. 28). N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker will reseed the money cloud as 110 in the Shade, with Inga Swenson, Robert Horton and Stephen Douglass (Oct. 24). A musical version of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is called...
...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...
...part, Coghill said he was sorry but the play was all cast. Burton's native aggressiveness flashed to the surface. "Let me understudy the leading man," he said wickedly. Undermine would have been a better word. When Measure for Measure opened?with people like John Gielgud and Terence Rattigan in the audience, for the O.U.D.S. was as important then as now?guess who was striding the boards as Angelo.- Binky Beaumont of H. M. Tennent Ltd., London's most powerful theatrical producer, was also there. He told Richard to stay alive and look him up when his Oxford and R.A.F...