Word: slezak
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...Bella Spewack must have chuckled, occasionally, while writing this fantasy of three warm-hearted convicts at Cayenne. But it takes more than a running gag or even a moderate number of good lines, to make a comedy consistently entertaining. Rather than the authors, it is pudgy Walter Slezak in the role of a combination convict, Cupid, and J. P. Morgan, who holds the play's biggest investment in laughs. To him belongs much of the credit for a year's success on Broadway...
Disregarding the fact that fat men are funny by definition, Slezak performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing...
...Army surrendered to the Air Force in an old personnel battle. Ever since the Air Force was separated from the Army in 1947, the Army has stoutly held control of some 30,000 Engineer troops, whose chief duty is building and maintaining airfields. This week Army Assistant Secretary John Slezak acknowledged that the Engineers will permit this unit to be absorbed into the Air Force...
...Steel Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Papa Is All, with Walter Slezak, Jessie Royce Landis...
...source of TV drama by buying an option on all the plays of the late George Bernard Shaw. This week, on the last show of the current Omnibus season, televiewers will see the first of the Shaw plays: Arms and the Man, starring Walter Slezak and Martita Hunt...