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... written for a lady (Garrick) is another odd play by Leo Marks, who wrote The Girl Who Couldn't Quite. Odd because the author cannot at present harness his undeniable gift for dialogue to a plausible plot. Clifford Molbson and Margaretta Scott do their best to aid him here. the pilgrim's progress (Covent Garden). Hugh Ross Williamson's effort to get Bunyan's great allegory upon the stage ...

... WITH a direct simplicity of purpose not as a rule the characteristic of this form of literature, the synopsis of The Naked City tells us exactly what we need to know about the film in its opening paragraph. Against the authentic background, it says, of more than a hundred famous New York City landmarks, Homicide Bureau detectives Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and James Halloran (Don ...

... The Glass Menagerie Haym arket) Anthony Cook man with Tom Titt REMEMBERING Mama has be come a national pastime in America. She is an or dinary woman, absurd in some ways but devoted, not always easy to live with but not to be men tioned in after years without a catch in the throat. It is a theme which, in Bacon's phrase, should come home to the business and bosoms of men everywhere, but for ...