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Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
...each other and the comedy of errors resulting from the confusion is resurrected for Maurice Chevalier in "Folies Bergere." The amiable Frenchman plays the parts of Eugene Charlier of the "Folies" and Baron Cassini, a dashing financier "as well known on the Boulevard as on the Bourse." Since the actor is so good at impersonating the Baron in his act, he eventually comes around to impersonating the distinguished banker when that gentleman is unavoidably absent at a reception he was supposed to be giving various dignitaries of the French government...
...Green Pastures for five consecutive years without missing a cue or a curtain call (TIME, March 4), Richard Berry Harrison was found in his Manhattan dressing room "in a state of super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk on as "de Lawd." "Hold me up, Charlie...
...star is to be singled out for excellence of characterization, that honor goes to Charles Laughton. The others play more or less stereotyped roles, but Laughton's excellent acting adds greatly to his fame as a versatile and capable actor. As the English valet who leaves the service of an English earl, Roland Young, to become the manservant of the American, Charles Ruggles, he is convincing and often amusing. His adventures in America and the slow transition these effect upon his character and personality comprise the plot of the story. For once he is not the villain, but the hero...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 50, French actor, playwright and producer; and Jacqueline de Lubac, 25, his current leading lady; in Paris. Last November Actor Guitry and Actress Yvonne Printemps were divorced (TIME...