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...scene was not prewar Germany, but Jerusalem last week; the colonel no 55 trooper, but one Richard H. L. Webb, commander of the ist Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The detained correspondents included the New York Post's George L. Cassidy, who said Lieut. Colonel Webb explained that Britain's military policy in Palestine is to have her troops "make such a nuisance of themselves [that] the bloody Jews will cease protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists." Colonel Webb added: "I don't care if I'm out of the Army tomorrow...
Leading the latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
...story is lasciviously simple, especially for those with an eye for triangles and the more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less...
Present Laughter--Noel Coward's new play, straight from its London success. John C. Wilson directed and Clifton Webb stars in this latest light comedy, which opened at the Plymouth last night...
Lightning on a Lake. Webb & Knapp had not given promise of such a mickle feat in its earlier days. Operated for years by Ivy League sprouts (Groton's and Harvard's Elliot Cross, St. Paul's and Yale's John Hurst Purnell Gould, St. Mark's Henry Sears), the 24-year-old business was strong in contacts, weak on aggressiveness, barely managed to break even on servicing its exclusive clientele...