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Kerr and Mrr 11 )tukc Otcar Bid*V*SeparaterFable•iStireserved I\rBy (.EORt.E BOl likEMrraUJ 4wuifw»ni I/\ HKlhJhxcellentt.Separate Tables,’’ at the farib. Miami and Miracle Theaters, is a heart-warming —-and hrarMugguig — film of great distinction dealing with what is probably the world's sad-drst ailment — liness. it is an ailment Irorn which all have suffered in some degree — and for this reasonIt should find ready acceptance and understanding at thr* box-office.But its producers have not put their entire dejendenre onthis emotional bond — its cast has been studded with such names of proven attraction as Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth. David Niven and Burt Lancaster. and they, along with such less stellar performers asGladys i ’ooper, Wendy f fillerand t athleen Nesbitt, turn m truly memorable p p i [ o i ina ricespar fttrmanrm in an rxrrl' Imt film nhntit the tnnrlyand denperatr.woman dominated by her mother, Mias Cooper, and drawn to the charming hut pathetically phony Niven. jitof a modified and unmelodra-matic (hand Hotel. The title is drawn from the dining room seating arrangement in a small, English seaside hotel, tavored by what the film itself calls the desperate and t h elonely The proceedings concern hut a day or two of crisis in iho lues of its inmates,Niven is a retired Armv of-finer; l.anraster is a writer about to mend hts broken hte by marriage to Miss Hiller, the hotel's efficient plain-jane owner. and .Miss Kerr is a timidThen the past snd a more current moral lapse born of his need for love — catch upwith Niven. The pa*t *Jim»rears ita beautiful hut dlwturh-ing head for Lancaster whenMKs Havworth, a a formerOr*wife, check# into the hotel.is especially effective ip scenes between 1-ancastrr and Miss Hayworth in which she works to win him hack, and m Miss Kerr's reaction to the revelation of her one true lias a fraud. 1SAINTS I SINNERS LOUNGEBUCK ROOM THEATREIt lakes Donlt;*h'Their itones are separate asthe separate tables they occupy in the dming room - yet ail are integral, parts of 1 itcat the hotel Delbert Manns1direction of the play by Ter- •cnee Rattigan is sensitive andvet a pillar of strength which Iguards constantly and successfully against the intrusion ofeven a hint nt the maudlinsj. Ui*4‘Ml AMI 1 leafitST RUN ITAIf NITFRI. and SAT., JAN. 2, 3RES. HI 5-1706 2860 CORAL WAY■■I/.SSV.V.',SVAV.V,V.%%V.%,.VASW.SV.S%%%W.V.VTo La atieh SitmeIt is hard to conceive bow the picture and tin* performances of Niven and ttie Misses Hiller nnd Kerr lt;an avoidmention come A r t d r m v*Award nomination tune.• ISeparate Tables is a sortNEW YORK .-if* - The highi ost of Broadway show business ]% demonstrated by the price tags on John Gielguds traveling one-man show .Shakespeare's Ages of Man ’’it cost about $6,000 to launch the undertaking on its recent i ross-country travel*. The capitalization for a scheduled four-week Broadway engagement w as $30.(XX).iI■Iftf -e/» /c rlainto f/7 LI, if,,!HELENE RIVOIRE,PIANO irruij AND SONGS•:CORONADO HOTELI■■■aaaaaaCOCKTAIL LOUNGECocktoil Hour and ivtntnq88Hi St. on the Ocean—Miami Beachaa,‘,W, .V.V.V.V.V.'.V.-.SV.V.'.V.'.SSV.'. .'.-.'.-. ,
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Miami Herald
Miami, Florida, US
Fri, Jan 02, 1959
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