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Sweet Mystery of Life (by Richard Maibaum. Michael Wallach & George Haight; Herman Shumlin, producer). Written with one eye on Broadway's hilarious Three Men on a Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions...
...Children's Hour (by Lillian Hellman; Herman Shumlin, producer) is a neat theatrical blend of A High Wind In Jamaica and The Captive. Playwright Hellman, divorced wife of Cinema Scenarist Arthur Kober, has learned how to put a play together. She is also wise, to the arcane criminality of childhood, to the no less delicate subject of female homosexuality...
...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...
...Bride of Torozko (by Otto Indig; Gilbert Miller and Herman Shumlin, producers). When the recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens...
...entire performance comes off with a precision and smartness that result from a most fortunate collaboration of casting, direction, staging, acting. A revolving stage facilitates the presentation of the 18 scenes. The smoothness with which each episode blends into the whole drama may be attributed to Director Shumlin. As the fleshy manufacturer, bluffing his way through a merger, Siegfried Rumann is convincingly brutal. He looks and performs not unlike Emil Jannings. He was an officer in the German army during the War, was wounded, acted in The Channel Road, has sung in Manhattan beer halls for a living. The stenographer...