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NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— Bonibing raids are a hindrance to movie making, but they won’t stop

the British, Cathleen Cordell, Amer-ican-born actress Just returned from London, said today. They didn’t stop her from appearing in “Major Barbara,” the film version of George Bernard Shaw’s play and one made entirely under the blitz. .It was started last August and completed only recently. “Yc seemed that just when you got in the mood the sirens would go off,” Miss Cordell said. “Then you'd have to go down to the shel‘ters and wait. Then the army

the actors: Then everything would be ready — and I'd have to go home. I had to be in bed at 10:30

The British Government, she said, was very sympathetic to film actors. All motion pictures are now financed by the Government

ica, and profits are deposited here for war credits. For this reason almost all actors have been released from the army. Robert Newton was honorably discharged from the navy to work in

picture.

indulgence occurred during shooting of picture. The scene was Brigge, a restricted area. | As special favor, the authorities | allowed the acting troupe to szf up paraphernalia there and plgy the scene on the bridge. A huge carnera crane became entangled in balloon: barrage—and orders fvere given to raise the balloons | | few feet. As an alien, Cathleen

had other difficulties besides |get-

passport and she had to report to the police almost daily. And What was really bothersome was that she couldn't own a bicycle. “Maybe you think a movie star has a bicycle just for show. janyhow,” she said. “That's not true in London. Leslie Howard

do. The only transportation you can really count on in [London these days is your own feet.” She said she. didn’t mind the bombing raids so much as she did

“Major Barbara,” Rex Harrison temporarily left the air force, and

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The lady seems to have dropped something which, on closer examination, proves to be Mischa Auer. He and his retriever, Nan Grey, are in the comedy called “Margie,” opening at the Ambassador Sunday. Below them is Johnny Mack Brown, star of the Alamo’s current “Ragtime Cowboy Joe.”

Designer Gives

First Interview

When the Civic Theater decided to do Elmer Rice's “Two on an Island” as its January bill, Director Richard Hoover realized that the

first and one of the most important problems was the matter of stage designing. Shortly afterward he realized that he knew the man who could do the job. Last month, on the night that “See My Lawyer” opened, Mr. Hoover had in his office the sketches for the Rice play’s production. They were by a young Yale student named Dongld Langworthy (Mr.[* Hoover's man for the job). And:they looked so promising that an interview seemed in order when and if Mr. Langworthy arrived in town. Well, he’s here, and busy supervising the construction his theatrical conception of such diverse items as the following: Two New York taxicabs, the inside of the Statue of Liberty’s head, a sightseeing bus, the inferior of a restaurant, a subway, the Metal politan Museum of Art, a theatrica producer’s office.

Doesn’t Always Agree

The writer intruded upon these labors to secure what turned out to be Mr. Langworthy’s first interview. The interviewee said at first that

he didn’t know quite what to say. But he soon warmed to his subject, partly from enthusiasm and partly from the fact the Civic's heating system was going full blast and the dressing room where we conversed possessed all the better qualities of a Turkish bath. Mr. Langworthy, it appeared, had seen the New York production of ‘Two on an Island,” but his production is not merely a copy. He took modest exception to some of Jo Mielziner’s designs, . but added that in other places he had followed the Mielziner lead because there was only one way to do it. He said he should be back at the Yale Drama School in the midst of rehearsals for William Gillette's

Higher Learning Given Side-Splitting

Kick-in-the-Pants in 'The Male Animal’

By JAMES THRASHER

ANYONE acquainted with the faintly neanderthal cartoon crea‘tions of James Thurber might expect him to write for the theater in the style of William Saroyan—at least. However it turns out in “The Male Animal,” now at English’s, that the dramatic brand of Thurber humor is tempered by theatrical convention. Or maybe that’s the result of Elliott Nugent's eollaborstion. Mr.

Nugent is not only co-author but also the star of the play. Further, he went to school with Mr. Thurber af. Ohio State University. Which certainly accounts for the play's scene and probably for some of its unflattering portraits. The ingredients of “The Male Animal” are pretty familiar. One finds the meek and bookish young professor who suddenly turns fromm mouse to lion. (It's hard to svoid the animal kingdom even in ‘a brief description of ' the piece). Also present are the babbitish, ardently football-minded and potentially fascistic trustee of a Midwestern university; the extrovert, ebullient all-American who returns after 10 years to renew his old affair with the professor’s wife; the elderly, likewise meek dean; the campus radical, and other collegiate fauna. ‘sa # =» PROF. TOMMY TURNER is beset by two grievous troubles. One is the furor aroused by the campus radicals’s editorial con=cerning Tommy's innocent proposal to read a letter by Vanzetti as lan example of powerful, unsophisticated English. The other coricerns his pretty and slightly hysterical wife’s reaction to this situation and the return of her old: beau, the football star. It all adds up to a shrieking, vertiginous turmoil and three acts charged with hysterical laughter. Once outside the theater it is a little difficult to explain, perhaps, why one laughed so much. But there is really no sense in going after the play with scissors and scalpel after what is undeniably a delightful evening. Some spots are obviously Mr. Thurber’s own. The delightful scene where Tommy, thoroughly drunk, explains the male animal's defense of his mate, is about as close to Mr. Thurber’s convulsive sallies into the world of art as. words can come. There are other phrases and situations which bear the marks of the ‘wit. Of course Mr. Thurber .is a veteran and inveterate writer, too. But if his New Yorker essays and “The Male Animal” are eventually forgotten in ‘favor of his atrocious and wonderful drawings, he’ll just have to credit it to the vagaries of genius and put

up with it.

MR. NUGENT probably can be thanked, among other things, for the modicum of dramaturgy which holds the show together. And there can be little cavil with fhe statement that his Tommy Turner is about perfect—just the right mixture of vagueness and timidity and spirit which never loses its human quality no matter how broad the general comedy playing. Leon Ames is splendid as the old football hero, and Elizabeth Love is delightful as Ellen, Tom-

‘my’s wife. Prominent in the ex-

cellent supporting cast is the veteran Ivan Simpson. And such is. the suggestive power of long association that one looks around every time Mr. Simpson comes on the stage. Herman Shumlin, who staged the play as well as producing it, has pointed up all of the script’s humorous implications ‘in his usual canny manner. The play, funny in itself, has gained a great cleal by his smart direction. ; There are a few serious moraents devoted to a plea for acaclemic freedom thrown in at the end of “The Male Animal.” But for the most part it’s a merry Mece whose chief consequence is that it delivers a good-humored kick squarely in our seats of laigher learning.

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STRANGE BEGINNING Joel McCrea was a mefer Ii % for a California gas company Defofe" entering pictures. 8

“Secret Service,” a production which

he is both designing and directing. But the Rice play apparently was interesting and inviting enough to make him pass up Christmas vacation in favor of work. So he’s going to stay here until after the opening, which is a week from tonight.

Together at Cohasset

Mr. Langworthy and Mr. Hoover first met as members of the South. Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass.,

started as an apprentice, but has

past two seasons. He designed two of the shows last summer. He finds the trend in present designing away from the strictly solid and realistic, -and toward lighter

the emphasis placed upon the sug-| gestive rather than the literal. But, Mr. Langworthy explained,

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