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Heartbreak House. Shaw's picture of Europe's pre-World War I leisure class, if wordy and sprawling, is also witty and brilliant, while several members of a cast that includes Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard are brilliant...
Heartbreak House. An uneven but often brilliant production of Shaw's uneven but often brilliant portrayal of "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I. With Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Sam Levene, Diana Wynyard...
Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden...
...uses both very early and formatively, Rice brings in both very late, making them misshape rather than mold John Kerr's nicely played but small-scale snarling boy. The play is most striking where, toward the end, it shifts the moral limelight from son to mother; and Diana Wynyard plays these later scenes brilliantly...
...Holly and the Ivy (London Films; Pacemaker), based on a recent Wynyard Browne hit play in London, has been called by one reviewer "the most deeply moving picture experience of this year"; by another: "earnest, sentimental, agreeably trumped-up, and resolved in a roseate flush." The contradictory opinions trace to a contradictory play. By raising ultimate questions, The Holly and the Ivy brings an audience to serious attention. By answering in church-door platitudes, it cheats expectation. Even so, the watchful urging-along of Director George More O'Ferrall and skillful stage business by a distinguished cast make...