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'The Late Christo opher Bean’ Reflects Life With Laughs

By HENRY BUTLER There are darn few angels in “The Maybe . the usual opening - night] Late Christopher Bean.” So when} crowd were too busy with Christ- events move around where angelic|? mas plans to fill the English Abby, the ‘despised #nd réjected | Theater last night. "maid, can walk off the stage in Act Or maybe “The Late Christopher III the widow of Christopher Bean Bean” has become too familiar and hence lawful owner of his re-| through amateur performances. {maining paintings, you want to In any case, those who stayed stand up and cheer. Vl away missed some first-rate stage Family Almost Wins entertainment. Sidney Howard's Up till then, the Haggett family § comedy still has great vitality 15 have acted pretty smart (you miss years after its original Broadway |, good New England "smat” in| Sucoess, the current production's dialog, a It isn't Just a star's show. With cause for complaint about realistic| all due respect to ZaSu Pitts, vho| lingo in this and other regional | is incomparably well adapted to the 01a). They've almost won. And| role of Abby, the play stands on its {for American audiences reared in| own feet as a fine example of con-| {the incompatible traditions of (1)| EO comet: section rage. 1| DM to outwit the ather guy and| Christopher Bean.’ who cher. wrote that the play is in the tradi- || (2) always playing fair, the comedy| ishes memories of the eccentric, ¢ asproblem in conflict, “Which deceased painters tion of classical comedy, | would you do?” we're always being | - -

MEMORIES—ZaSu Pitts, who portrays the maid in "The Late

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I'd forgotten how true that 1s.) ronics, with $64 or a five-room “The Late Christopher Bean” is an home as a prize for the right an- Clock excellent modern counterpart of, swer, MURAT say, Mollere's “L'Avare” (The Abby solves the plot. She gets) Jordan Conservatory’s annual Miser"), Just as in Mollere’s play, her just reward, in this case not ENGLISH an evil structure of human greed: peyond the grave. Miss Pitts, with “The, lake Chiteeghar Bean, develops until it threatens to wreck the same pathetically futile but ex-| and ‘so. © ou Fide ®

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the happiness of the few good “Nellie, the Farmer's Daughter,”

pressive gestures of the hands you've

characters in the cast. Only a god geen in movies, wins a point, and| .odrama, at 8:30 (the classical “deus ex machina”) a big one. CIRCLE olve the plot, redress out. 8 ‘ v we Or “Singapore,” with Fred MacMurcan solv P ut=i Miss Pitts 1s awfully well worth) Bet Gardner, av 1:00, 4:11, geous wrongs and bring poetic! seeing in the role, She has good! 7:31 and 10:31. stice. support, even though Frank Wilcox In ortiwest Outpost % with, Nelo pAdy n 0 assey, " ‘That sounds kind of fancy, hut in the Dr, Haggett part seems to 2 40, 5.50 aay » it's still true that all good comedy be over-acting here and there INDIANA y Gold ¥ i with Marlena has a desperate bite in it: All good Isabel Price as Mrs. Haggett and pofith aod Ray Midland, at 12.30, comedy concerns people in the role Elizabeth Parrish as Ada, manage 340, 6:55 and 10:05, of heels of one sort of another. And | to incarnate female avarice oi Bosal Are Rede, with Don. Castle, good classical comedy never had to] As the wholly or semi-angelic KEITI'S introduce a psychiatrist to explain types, Lucille Marsh (Susan), Mich- “Dracula,” with Bela Lugosi, até

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