Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-11
Shaw and Loughton
A Sensational Pair
Actors 25-Yeor Fight for Don Juan
Gives Theoter q Brilliant Work
By JaY carmody

laundering echo of Bernard Shaws
Washington the other presentation Of Juan
in Hell" by the First Drama Quartette.
Nor will it stop here that echo quartet composed of
Charles Laughton Charles Hardwicke and
Moorehead being invited everywhere The red carpets are out
for the Malvern festival in England
SO long as Lugton hold his
play and players together.
Behind II, an Actors Devotion to Ideo
This should be- for here leastproduced play
Is the drama for which the soul mankind hungerng
The satisfaction of deep curious emotion brought its
testimonial ovation whose enthusiasm rapture
with which the audience Of than $500 reading
Of the play.
Behind all this and what yet come. of
an actor to an idea The actor Charles idea
OF course that Don Juan He'll should
worthy OF the most intelligent play of the Goth century
saws had that play under my pillow for rs sushon
circumstances for its production have been worth it.
Feel: Rloy .sd nsspk Rel i. :, mi.
plays not alone for the magnificent things has
It the most timely and the most teess Of his works as x
and 1t is, above all, deeply religious play"
seen Don Juan in HELP only Of
his more intimate and deeper association with it.
Those who know Laughton can think Of likely
to have been the sponsor Of Don Juan physical
resemblance Shaw be less than his intellectual
likeness visible only to those who Neverthe-
less he the single man in the English could
write:
7 am not complete apriorist always from single
tac or incident which strikes me as significant But is
just deduce what happened and happened my fair
nature knowing that can and plenty
documents and witnesses to bear possible concu
sons."
Show Continues His sef-c Criticism
And the sefcritczng Shaw of his inability
to resist funny business"
This has prevented becoming really great author
have unfortunately this temptation that suddenly
comes upon me- Just when really rising height of
that may become really great absurd
joke occurs and the ancimax irresistible deny
that have got the tragedan and have the
and the clown trips in the most dreadful way"
Understanding thus the man and his work, Laughon could
be the artfu fellow in craft together so
sationaly simple Don Juan in He'll"
Next to the inspiration for producing the
witty play the best of his imagination has casting
Charles Boyer Don Juan In this the bance
Jest of which Shaw himself might be proud Boyer
Is delighted party.
This not the paltry screen romaces
On the contrary it the real Boyer nguary intelligent
gifted actor who speaks for Shaw himself
in whose phosophic image this Don Juan
Don Juan not denied Boyer plays
but he reviews its results intellectual effect
Is universe delight Boyer ever
played the and audiences
by an actors reversal of his field.
Sir Cedric Brilliantly Cost
The enthusiasm for and perception Of shaws
meaning is to be found in Sir cedrcs portrait
Tor Turing people into the OF Don juan but for enan
ing them upon arrival.
single of Don JUAN" fitting representative
of her the reacherous trap Shaw always setting
females.
himself Laughton has taken one of the lesser roesf
such thing there n the play he planned half lifetime
produce TINS is the part OF the Devil another piece casting
calculated be irresistible to the public and working
csey that fashion.
Having thus assembled group worthy profound pro-
vocave and witty play Laugton used them with
wisdom They not actors the stage employs Them
four formally dressed intelligent vocay brilliant
Of acting spokesman for Shaw
They work in formal setting the assumption beinp
that Intellectual hell beyond
Instead the four actors sit on high black stools bsf
music racks which hold the script of the play with micro
phones their purpose let the NAV sneak r
itself to the greatest degree possible. ~
It's degree forgotten by the CAPACITY audience
which saw it at Constitution Hall Thursday night
nor by future audiences to whom Laugton will bring