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...Giraudoux) brings Audrey Hepburn again to Broadway-or rather, Audrey Hepburn brings Ondine there, as representing her choice from among many scripts. She will almost certainly become the acting sensation of the season, for in Ondine, she has found a part she can act out ravishingly, whether as water sprite or woman. But the part is far more beguiling than the whole. Despite its medieval stage color, its moments of pure enchantment, its other moments of pure Giraudoux, Ondine never quite gets off the ground-or out of the water...
...variety possible on the stage. Unlike T.S. Eliot, Giraudoux does not couch his parable in obscurity, but is quite willing to spell out the point of the play: that man must accept and respect human limitations. When exposed to superhuman love and devotion-like that of the water sprite ondine-even a knight errant finds that his shining armor becomes rusty. He is neither worthy nor capable of returning complete love. Having only this simple "message" to comprehend, the playgoer can approach his evening as one of enjoyment rather that as a cultural double acrostic...
...plays most impressive feature is diminutives Miss Hepburn. She does not mistake her role for that of a normal 16-year-old girl with an abnormal affection for swimming. Rather, she makes Ondine a genuine immortal water sprite. With an exaggerated inflection and manner, she creates an aura of sprightliness about her. Lithely posturing, she distorts realistic movements to the point of super-nature; and they seem right for an ondine. Added to her acting skill is her delightful personal appearance which would make a fine model for all sprites, land, air or sca-borne. When she makes her third...
...lines are read without all the emotion they call for, Bing somehow remains true to the spirit of the film. As the boy, ten-year-old Christian Fourcade, a French child actor with, happily, no suggestion of the professional about him, has the delicate, transient quality of a sprite face seen out of the corner of the eye; looked at directly, his charm dissolves. But he is the kind of child every motherly woman immediately wants to put an extra sweater on, and he is well directed (by George Seaton) to make the most of this quality without making...
Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the Boys make everyone wish they were seeing the show for the first time. Maude Adams and Jean Arthur, after all, never really could fly; this...