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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Before Hitler's aerial Blitzkrieg became a reality, the English theatre was in the dumps. Last week, as Nazi bombers swarmed over London, theatrical tills rang loudly again. Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth...
...Hollywood (Wuthering Heights, We Are Not Alone), One of England's leading serious actresses, she has played older parts since youth, has probably depicted as many queens-Queen Elizabeth, Empress Elizabeth, Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's Katharine-as any other living actress. With Robert Donat, she worked hard in a little shoestring theatre at Cambridge; with Charles Laughton she played for a season at London's Old Vic. When Ladies in Retirement closes, she will probably go to Hollywood instead of back to England, because "I can't be funny, and there's little...
Companion picture "The Ghost Comes Home" does not show Robert Donat returning from the West, unfortunately. There are, however, Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, plus love interest. For those who like to see him mumble and her flutter, this should be amusing...
Hollywood's swank Cocoanut Grove was aflutter with ermine wraps and shimmering gowns as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its twelfth annual awards. To Robert Donat for his role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and to Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind went Oscars signifying the year's best performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance...