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LL this Luntery,"
as Cecil Beaton would (and did) say "Is going to
be wildly exciting" and there is no reason to doubt his word.
by
KENNETH TYNAN
Broadway, and
:wo
years
tour In. Ameri- Long run,
ca.
which make
most actors' drowsy, stlaw- late the Lints, and it is fact that, after
the
final matince on the last day of the Broadway run of "Love in
Idleness,** Lunt, look'ng deeply
concerned, call-
ed a full rebear-
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to smooth out
a
delicate piece
aupreme technocrats, muscle- This summer Beaton will Bound by Excess of technique be working with Lynn Fon- The prompter searched for the line, and had hissed it thrice in tanne' and her husband mounting horror before Lunt's Alfred Lunt ол Noel voice came whispering hoarsely of Coward's new play, "Quad- back at him. "We know the which had been
line, dear boy," it said, care o
business
him.
rille" its action takes place fully, "but we don't know which fels
during the 1870's in London, of us says it,"
in a railway station at Bou- logne, and on the French
Riviera, and the Lunts are
Their technique
Both the Lunts are crowd-
ing 60, from one direction or an-
"Tha Luula' in typical slage informulliy.
serve,
their
ane
in love both with and in it. I their highly personal method,
UNT is quite unable to dešine other, but such is their vivid then the most remunerative con- geniality that you might think trect in Alm history, 925,000 60 were an casis, instead of a dollar.
for Boven pictures. Beaton, who will design the as he realised with a jolt when
milestone.
Almost without pausing to settings and costumes, is already a student asked him what, in fact, was meant by "stago
refcat 20 toothbrushes
they turned it. down. agog with research into
the technique." He passed the ques
Like John Gielgud, they dis- exact dimensions of mid-
tion to his wife, who replied YNN Fontanse, sly. sereno trust cameras, and regard them, Victorian bustles. The Lanis
imperturbably in what is known und catlike of tread, retains superstitiously, as death, rays, confidence is quieter, but equally as her "knitting volte"; "Techni- at 04 a debutante graciousness, designed to nullify the glamour unshakable; their previous col-3
·Jives + laborations with Coward (not que, Alfred, means being able and has preserved her compact which ably the 1933 Broadway produc- to cross a stage talking at the elegance with no recourse to punctiliously organised to con-
Her only totems are tion of "Design for Living") top of your voice without bump alchemy.
a fantastic parade of 20 tooth- have been promperous enough to ing into the furniture."
All labelled which she takes every- ·· brushes, purge anyone's quaims.
The Lunts story might be where, and a home recipe (based THE Lunts are, above all, epitombed as a long and un- on milk) for her hands.
organised to endure. They erring avoidance of the furni- The Lunts exercise is farm- have adopted a provident, steady ture; the explosive, furniture ing, and on very little excuse rhythm of living which antici composure wrecking jamborees inherent in THEIR
all obstacles, conceals, as it always has, a the stronger, rhetorical kinds they will join antiphonally in pates
of praise of thek hens, and leaves them constantly astir perpetual inward chuckling at drama are not for them. In the explain how, when emerging and astonished when obstacles the variousness of events, and red
you might say, they are from the coop, they look exactly
may appear positive revelry in the contem-
Intruders; in like a matinee audience filing It is characteristic of them plation of work
twentieth-century comedy-drama out of the Broadhurst Theatre. that, three weeks before they they practically hold squatters The Lants sophistication is sun- left for England, every suitense rights.
burnt, and not the hothouse kind was packed and labelled.
It has survived without any fact, it would not surprise me
'Mystics'
external
""They're mystics," my Beaton; "hardworking mystics." And in spite of Lunt's statement, In appearance Lunt resembles
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For slightly less than three into stateliness. He is now 50, decades, skittishly or sombrely, and was born (like an oddly the Lumts have been conducting high proportion of good Ameri- their private life on stage, with- can actors) in Wisconsin. cut once being accused of ex-
hibitionism.
Their special skill
La intramarital high comedy
The Lane, 1905
rather than the profounder sorts TIS
of theatrical exultation, among His wife, Ave years his senior,
which tragedy is numbered.
out
Private joke
- cf ad
11 comes from
Woodford, in
Essex, and was walking on in the Drury Lane pintomime of 1005 whilo Lunt's parents were
HEY have enthroned on the still happily predicting an archi
stuge their own whimsical, tect's career for their son. She sensible, rel ixed, champagne travelled to America in 1913
carpet slippers
the Inte arid fitfully stamp of sophistication; since with their marriage in 1923 they glorious Laurette Taylor, and have always acted together, a met Lunt on a backstage ata.I self-imposed restraint which has case, soon after the war. Nuel curtailed their range (since Coward strucic up: acquaintance many of the best plays have but with them at about this period, one central character), while at the same time magnifying their when (as he has since phrase legend.
It) they were "courting, to pit It mildly.
There is a wonderful, hard- carned complacency about the.
This is the Lunts" fth pro Lunts style. Their intricate fessional trip to London, the interplaying with its apparent last, of course, being that falso starts, Interruptions, and Incessant mutual mockery, is a generously protracted wartime
public private joke on a
scale sojourn from 1943 to 1945, when Only once in recent memory they appeared in Sherwood's has the machine seized up. The Fulllzer Prize winner, "Thong Lunts were playing in their Shall Bo No Night", "ond Rati¬ customary at-and-away-from- gan's "Love In Idler.com"?" "The the-refa manner, a particularly Fattigan play occupied them involved two-handed rally, when
suddenly and simultaneously continuously for over, Aivo years, "both" "gro15" in" their tracks; two sonson in London; another on
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