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...many a first-nighter, puzzling over the biographical sketch in his Playbill, Jean Arthur may have seemed as ageless and mysterious as Peter Pan himself. The eight-line sketch offered little more than the fact that she was a famous screen star whose favorite film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...
...Great Fugue was a rhythmic evocation of Conductor Arturo Toscanini in action, and of the music he draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...
...final sketch, with Young taking his first ride in a commercial airliner, gave) him a chance to show off in his most colorful schnook form. Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could...
Project 109, unlike its predecessor "A Touch of the Times," will not attempt any social message. It will be a straightforward humorous sketch, in the style of the late Robert Benchley, according to Alexander. In the prologue to the film author MacCann will give a dedication and his "limited apologies" to Benchley...
...these ludicrously underplayed dramatics. Miss Leighton's role is the only one with any conviction, and she ably makes the most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...