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...performers and happily deceived audiences. In the Broadway revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 1923 Aren't We All?, part of the charm is a return to the heyday of drawing-room comedy and, for that matter, of drawing rooms. The chief pleasure is seeing Rex Harrison, 77, and Claudette Colbert, 81, apparently just as vibrant and elegant and, yes, young as when they became stars more than half a century ago. When, during their autumnal courtship, Harrison declares, "My age is 48," and Colbert responds that hers is 22, the laughter they evoke is indulgent, not disbelieving...
...will discover that she has had a recent flirtation too. Lonsdale's polite palaver provides an opportunity for the display of style by Lynn Redgrave and Jeremy Brett as the urbanely warring couple, George Rose and Brenda Forbes as a tippling reverend and his priggish wife and, above all, Colbert, with her breezy manner and chorus-girl legs, and Harrison, with his merry twinkle and courtly roguery. Escapist the experience undeniably is, but Aren't We All? could not bear the weight of added incident, let alone redeeming social importance. Either would amount to gilding gossamer...
...sellout in London last year; it opens on Broadway at the end of the month, and Harrison has been practicing with an almost entirely new cast. The only one remaining from the London production, indeed, is his co-star and partner in charm, Claudette Colbert...
...perhaps more precisely, they adored Harrison and Colbert, who, at 77 and 81, may be the world's most accomplished practitioners of the all-but-lost art of amusing repartee and witty exit lines. Their last Broadway romp was The $ Kingfisher in 1978. "I go back to the age of Methuselah!" says Harrison, with what sounds like genuine pride. "When I first went to London to work in the '20s, I loved watching the great high-comedy actors of the period, like Gerald du Maurier. To my mind, they were the epitome of what acting is about...
Northeastern (69)--Pam Green 15-2-32; Desiree, Clagon 5-0-10; Caria Singleton 5-2-12; Adrienne Colbert 4-4-6; Dana Williams 1-3-5; Joanne Healy 2-0-4; Amy Malinarie 0-0-0; Kim McDowell 0-0-0. Totals...