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History's greatest specialist in creating stage comedy, Moliere, has been chosen for the inaugural production of a newly formed theatrical group, the Actors Playhouse of Boston, Inc. The players are making use of an intimate and attractive gree-and-gold theatre designed by Raymond Sovey in the Hotel Bostonian, and tailored to accommodate an audience of ninety-five...
...whether the fault is Anouilh's or Fry's; perhaps, since the play is a London success, the "fault" is merely the difference of taste on this side of the Atlantic. Gilbert Miller has provided an uncommonly beautiful production. Georges Wakevitch's garden setting is handsome; Raymond Sovey's lighting makes it respond fully to the action. Raoul Dufy has contributed six "mood" curtains, and Francis Poulene has contemplated the play with background music. The shortcomings of the comedy are not the result of economizing. Although "Ring Round the Moon" is not as perfect a bit of entertainment...
...Candle" becomes self-conscious after the initial novelty wears off. The first two acts are amusing, partly because of the fine acting of Harrison and Miss Palmer, who twirls a cloak with a professional eclat. Jean Adair, Scott McKay, and Larry Gates give excellent supporting performances, and Raymond Sovey's set is atmospheric and handsome. With some careful pruning and revision, "Bell, Book, and Candle" has a good chance to make the grade on Broadway...
Laid entirely in a court room which Designer Raymond Sovey has managed to make look astonishingly solid and permanent, Libel! concerns an action brought by one Sir Mark Loddon (Colin Clive) against a London newspaper which has made so bold as to declare that he "is not a Baronet, nor even a Loddon, and can hardly be accurately described as a Member of Parliament, as he secured his return by practicing on the electorate the same deliberate fraud he practiced on his wife." In theory the plaintiff but in fact the defendant. Lord Loddon is gravely suspected of having exchanged...
Additional injections of atmosphere are made between scenes-while some extremely simple and effective scenery by Raymond Sovey is being shifted-by the appearance of a number of cowpunchers who sing old Western songs. This technique is not unlike that of Girl Crazy, the musicomical neighbor of Green Grow the Lilacs. When one overcomes the impression that Green Grow the Lilacs is a succession of song cues, it becomes a diverting presentation...