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Despite Actress Sullavan's adroitness and Joseph Cotten's ease, the romance seems pretty thin-spun and forced. As is so often true in drawing-room comedy, the secondary characters are the most fun. Mr. Cotten's Tory father (delightfully played by John Cromwell) seems a wittier cousin of the late George Apley, while Cathleen Nesbitt, as a great lady who purrs, and Luella Gear, as a career woman who drips acid, also add to the brightness...
...million thanks for publishing "It Happened One Night." To my mind, Mark Twain and George Ade in collaboration could have written nothing wittier...
This book that could very likely get by without music is blended with very fetching music indeed. In this next-to-last of Rodgers & Hart's triumphs together, Rodgers' tunes were never suaver, wittier, more engaging-whether in such favorites as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book or in such a mocking female duet as Take Him. Seldom were Hart's lyrics brisker, brighter, more uninhibited, enabling Elaine Stritch -for one example-to stop the show with Zip, a spoof of a striptease...
...written by the distinguished French playwright Jean Anouilh and translated by the distinguished English playwright Christopher Fry, it is only logical to suppose that it would be a completely satisfying play. The theatre, however, often peversely delights in confounding logic. "Ring Round the Moon" has more brilliant scenes, wittier dialogue, and greater thought than most plays, but there is something lacking...
Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...