"While The Sun Shines" Bright on B'way
"While The Sun Shines" Bright on B'way MAKE HAY-HAY! '•WHILE THE SUN SHINES." By Tertnce Rattigan. Staged by George S- Kaufman. Pretented by Max Gordon. At the Lyceum Theatre. Thia firtt...
...Being a breezy old top, his young lordship phones a lively girl friend to some snd entertain the American while his lordship bustles over to the Admirslty...
...Catbleen Cornell might have been a bit leas ladylike as the Earl's play girl...
...Melville Cooper, in the accessory role of the parasitic, gambling Duke (whose daughter's marriage to the weslthy San will pay snowy debts) lifts it to s major part by tha superbly inconsequential msnner of his comic playing...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...But it's done very deftly, with nest dialogue thst often sheers toward wit, and well-paced direction...
...The thrilling Mtarisation of James M. Cain's •*JT ef murder and unholy love is "¦¦sj up the fourth biggest siTBaiii at the Paramount this Tjstf In support of :he stars are foTief Hall and Jean Heather...
...As to the story, it's the safe bet that England muddles through, and the Early bird gets the lady...
...Anna Burr Is excellent aa Elisabeth ; in truth, the whole east cay riea nobly along...
...The comedy highlights PO Provided hy Pat Henning with *¦ "one tone" impressions of {J**je stars.- Freddie Stewart...
...Can the American be blamed if the girl that arrives is Lady Elizabeth, the Earl's fiancee...
...and Desmond snd Don Baker "•as out the program...
...Act II cannot quite maintain the pace, and by Act III, save for a back to back re-proposal, there's scsreely anything left to do...
...And thst sin't hay...
...Thia firtt bright bit from England since the barber and the blitz brings international complications in the chambers, of an Earl...
...Complications sre furthered by a French lieutenant the lady, has found en route, in one of the swiftest and wildest first acts of seasons—at the end of whieh the Duke of Ayr and Stirling, whipping his daughter Elisabeth's breath, pronounces her "Stinko prof undo 1" Score one for the U. S. lieutenant...
...Mulvaney, whose memory lapsed after some drinks the night before...
...It seems Lord Harpenden has brought home Lt...
...i MMMOUNT HOLDS "OOUILE INDEMNITY" "Double Indemnity," co-starring "•sTred MacMurray, Barbara B*aawyek and Edward G. Robinson »s*hwes for a third Week at the Y. Paramount...
...hot she does set like a lady at the snd...
...While the plat is as trivial at most we've recently seen, after the silly dialogue snd empty characterization of moat recent plays, "While the Run Shines" brings us comedy a man can enjoy witb his mind as well as hia belly and points South...
...t*» person the Andrews Sisters Fjwimie as a headline attraction Pj* Mitchell Ayres and his orE**a...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 39
