1948-10-22 — Page 9

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AS A PLAY "LIFE WITH FATHER" MADE LONG-RUN HISTORY

NOW AT LAST IT'S ON THE SCREEN AT THE

QUEEN'S * LEE

FATHER IS NOT FOND

OF HOUSE GUESTS

The Day household on Madi-this work hits a snug when it is

son Avenue in New York City discovered

that Dr. Bartlett's

in the Eighties, presided over balm la no good. by Clarence Day Sr. (Willian

Fine Acting

also

Powell, provides the, setting The flow of rich meident which for the memorable sereen ver unravels the Day problems pro- slon of Clarence Day's "Life vides a aim of rare

entertain- With Father."

ment, Besides the two stars, ex-

performances are Events In the Day home lake cellent form .when Mrs. Day (Irene turned in by Edmund Gwenn as the three Dunne)

Cousin invites

Corn the 17-year-old younger And

boys, Derek Scott, Mary (Elizabeth Taylor) for a Johnny Calkins and Martin Mil- ner. Others sorted out for men- Lion FEM the top-flight cast in. clude: Heather Wilde. Monte Blue and Clara Blandick.

(ZaSu Pitts)

few days visit.

Romance

Father delesis house guests and does not hide this fact from his

minister

Day

and

The screen play is by Donald family. Romance blossoms when Ogden Stewart, adapted from the young Clarence (Jimmy Lydon), Oscar Serlin stage production who is about to enter Yale, falis written by Howard Lindsay and in love with Mary. The matter Russel Crouse. Max Steiner

ย

of religion however casts n cloud responsible for the music. Michael

ver the match, and Father adds Curliz directed.

zest to the problem when he

2081

openly states that he himself has

never been baptised.

From then on this charming

Zasu Pitts of the sad, sad volce

and fluttery bands is an important

member of the cast of Clarence

plot is motivated by Mrs. Day's Day's "Life With Father." This

desire 10 get Father baptised comedienne, who garners laughs

quickly and suve his soul.

The comedy

趙 reaches

Just at the mere sight of her

new pathetic mannerisms, plays Cou-

climax when the young son con-sincora who comes to visit the tinues to woo Mary with marked Day family in their browns onc Victorian fervor. He sells patent mansion on Madison Avenue in medicine to get a new sult. ButlNew York.

dignity

Clarence Day Br. (William Powell) poses with tremendous and only alight, impatience while his wife Vinnis (Irana Dunne) displays her usuat affectionate attentivanass,

ALHAMBRA

Young love

springs up in the Day household when Clarence junior (Jimmy Lydon) ats eyes on pretty visitai

Mary (Elizabeth Taylor).

FAMILY HAS EVER

· CONTAINED DRAMA

Howard Lindsay and Russel; Lindsay picked up again. about 02% of the Crouse, who adapted the "Life "Now, with With Father" stories of Clar-population married-those over ence Day Jr. for the stage, 15, that is, it stands to reason were not a little surprised, as the biggest problem of the big- were many other people, when Best percentage, notwithstanding economics-and-the-international the play became the greatest situation, is the plain old domes- theatrical hit of all time.

tic problem."

"In the beginning," said Lind- Crouse adds, "So. It's no acci- kay, "we only neured the play dent that the three greatest hits for one short season on Broad. In theatrical history were fam- lly playsLife With Father,"

Way."

"But now," expanded Crouse, Tobacco. with the steady eight years' run Rose Road,' and 'Able's Irish

of the comedy to give him con

"But it goes further back than he xtresses. The family

And that

fidence, "we ern theorise. we say that the reason for the has been one of the great themes of dramatic history. Since time show's success lies in the Ameri-

immemorial the domestic situa- can family,"

tion has The two theatrical geniuses wright, putty for

and his brainchild." pointed out that, while the aver- Crouse observes, in support of

hithe

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oge American family is now

sons less than it his collaborator, that "Oedipus nearly two persons

of anti- was in the mauve decide when Rex," the greatest play

tragedy:

their masterpiece takes place,quity, was a domestic

Then over the centuries came there are still nearly 35,000,000 "Hamlet" and "Romeo and families in the country and el-Juliet."

A man named Strind- most 8,000,000 of them have at berg wrote a play called.

The least one child under 21,

Father" and another man named "And certainly," says Lindsay, Ibsen wrote & family tragedy *their foremo't consideration is called "Ghosts"

and a

Russian the family itself."

named Chekhov wrote a dour

"And consequently," says comedy about a dispossessed Crouse, "they flock to see family family called "The Cherry Or entertainment."

chard."

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