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...Boston Repertory Association has paid off another handsome dividend to the citizenry in "Richard III." Though produced under the name of the Association, it is actually the baby of Richard Whorf and Richard Barr, who hope to present this version on Broadway in the near future. As a Repertory offering it rates an unhesitating recommendation, but it is not a very good play, and the Messrs. Whorf and Barr could do well to devote their talents elsewhere in the Bard's works...
...Richard Whorf, who plays Richard, gives the impression of an actor with intelligence and talent, and an apparently urgent need to relieve the kidneys. He whirrs through his lines at a speed that soon passes all understanding. Though each word is clearly pronounced, even telegraphed, the audience soon falls exhausted by the wayside while Mr. Whorf races on. The listener does not feel cheated as much as incompetent on his own part. In a few moments of ironic humor, Mr. Whorf is very good...
...critics no longer voted conservative, but technicians like John Whorf and Robert Strong Woodward, the Robert A. Tafts of art, kept right on pleasing the public with the kind of landscapes which recall vacations in the country. There were brief 57th Street appearances by Philip Evergood, George Biddle and other reporters of suffering and war, who did their best to give art a message...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...
...very hummable "Always," "Christmas Holiday" has its tense and effective moments. Gale Sondergaard delivers a spine-tingling performance as the aristocratic matriarch of an old New Orleans family, trying to keep her bad little boy from going around murdering people and otherwise disturbing the Creole peace. Richard Whorf portrays the liquor-loving newspaperman in just the right tones of big-time tenderness...