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...therefore no great surprise, either, when Pauline beat Gussie, 6-0, 6-3, in a 33-minute opener at the Garden. The only real departure from the advance script was that Pauline, wearing dazzling silver lame shorts and a shocking-pink sweater, nat only gave Gussie (in white pique) a tennis lesson but out-dressed her as well...
...screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" follows the script, set, and even some of the props of the stage version with unusual faithfulness. But it fails to duplicate the central characters' sense of confinement and of frustration which was one of the chief virtues of the play...
Despite the defect inherent in a film adaptation, the screen "Glass Menagerie" is a very good job. The script requires only four important speaking parts. Three are very well acted and the fourth is done competently. Gertrude Lawrence handles the meatiest role, that of the faded belle, and she proves that she deserved it. Her part demands several long speeches without much accompanying action, something difficult to put over in a movie. Miss Lawrence never misses; she brings out the peculiar combination of guts and hot air of the character se portrays...
...performers are uniformly excellent. Miss Hagen plays her role with all the sympathy that Odets intended. Hill too, is at ease in his demanding part, giving credibility to a difficult script. It is Kelly, however, who is most outstanding. He simple honesty, giving full evidence of his great acting ability...
...movie about the College has been in the embryo stage since 1948. At that time John U. Munro, assistant to the Provost, William M. Pinkerton, director of the News Office, and David W. Bailey, secretary to the Corporation, wrote a very rough script which is now serving as a basis for the "March of Time" production. "More than likely, there'll be a completely new script by the time the movie in finished," Munro said last night...