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...road used to mean extreme discomforts for audiences as well as touring actors, while Broadway theaters were havens of relaxation. Today the situation is just about reversed. "Broadway is ostensibly the center of the theater industry," said Actor Brian Aherne last week, recalling a cross-country tour of Dear Liar (TIME, March 28). "But it is elsewhere, all over the U.S., that you find the modern facilities and the new theaters...
Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. Less scatological but more truthful than Harris' own notorious account of his life, this biography offers a good portrait of the British editor, lecher and liar...
...Dear Liar is a "comedy of letters" that Actor-Director Jerome Kilty wove out of the 40-year correspondence between Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Bernard Shaw. What results is no play, nor is it meant to be. Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne are intentionally dramatic instruments rather than impersonators. In form, the whole thing, which reached Broadway after a road tour of 66 cities, most resembles a set of verbal duets. Adapter Kilty, with an ingenious try, displays neat workmanship, and the two stars have gone gallantly at their rather anomalous roles. But pleasant and provocative as it is, Dear...
...what Dear Liar suffers from is less Shaw as lover than Shaw as letter writer, a role in which he falls far short of the dramatist. Things perk up when the stars can get their teeth into something theatrical rather than into each other, as when they go over a scene from Pygmalion. But the stars are not quite wedded to their parts. Unfailingly gracious, Actress Cornell seems too gentle and Actor Aherne seems somehow too jaunty...
...been a thundering liar. Frank Harris would have been a great autobiographer. He shared with the major self-portrait artists-Cellini, Pepys, Boswell and Rousseau-the paradoxical but necessary combination of a surging pride and a vestigial sense of shame. But he had the crippling disqualification that he told the truth, as Max Beerbohm once remarked, only "when his invention flagged...