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Habeas Corpus. A British comedy about doctors, subtitled "A Tale of the Permissive Society." Its cast includes June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Jean Marsh, Rachel Roberts and Donald Sinden. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston. Performances through November 8, evenings at 8 p.m., matinees...
Habeas Corpus. Subtitled "A Tale of the Permissive Society," it is a comic courtroom drama. The cast includes June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Jean Marsh, Rachel Roberts and Donald Sinden. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston. Performances through November 8, evenings at 8 p.m., matinees...
Habeas Corpus. subtitled "A Tale of the Permissive Society," so it must be a comedy. The cast includes June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Jean Marsh, Rachel Roberts and Donald Sinden. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston. Performances October 27-November 8, evenings, at 8 p.m., matinees...
...careless craftsmanship scrimps on the spectacle and destroys the romance of what might have been a pretty fair adventure. The story is a pastiche of lost-world yarns. It goes heavy on Jules Verne and throws in odd bits from H. Rider Haggard and James Hilton. Donald Sinden, currently on Broadway in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of London Assurance (TIME, Dec. 30), shows up playing a curmudgeonly British explorer who goes on an elaborate search for his son. Junior has been missing for well over a year, so it may be assumed that Dad is ambivalent about...
...gall to retain only to dispose of them with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous by farcical staging, and the whole cast takes turns shamelessly mugging in asides to the audience. As the faded beau, Donald Sinden transparently masks an egoist's will of steel with extravagant slapstick. He is matched by the Grace of Polly Adams, who makes what could have been a most tiresome ingenue into a bright and funny human being. ∙Gina Mallet