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...State of the Union, Lindsay & Grouse once brightly mated politics and humor; they have been less successful matchmakers with politics and thrills. They have staunch allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...
Slightly obscuring the weakness of the play is the general competence of the cast. Felix Aylmer is a restrained and amiable British Delegate, and Ben Astar capitalizes on a remarkable resemblance to Malenkov in a convincing, and not wholly unsympathetic portrayal of the Russian Delegate. As Mrs. Prescott, Katherine Cornell is a little hearty in her portrayal of the brilliant career-woman, but she clutches at furniture with appropriate intensity in her distraught moments...
...movies, revues and nightclubs. A commercial photographer spotted her in one show and put her picture in every drugstore in Britain advertising the benefits of Lacto-Calamine. Meanwhile she went on with her ballet lessons and filled in her spare time studying dramatics under British Character Actor Felix Aylmer. "A pretty girl is not necessarily qualified for the stage," says Aylmer (who used to coach Charles Laughton). "What's most important is poise and motion. She had that naturally...
Finlay Currie. Felix Aylmer. Broderick Crawford...
...have only to look to appreciate her, and partly because her role of Rebecca, the Jewess accused of sorcery, offers a good deal more meat than the others. The only actors who make their lives come alive are the stalwarts of the Old Vic, Emlyn Williams and Felix Aylmer. They obviously feel more at home in the world of flowery speech...