RENOWN THEATRE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY The film version of "Arsenic and Old Lace" has jostled the plot of the stage play a bit, completely reversing the romantic situation, thus creating even more laughs than originally. On the screen the story opens with Cary Grant (Mortimer Brewster ) and PfiS&llai.- - 1 L^ne ; (Elaine Harper) , the- .p'rqt^y girl next door, being' married in City Hall and the couple's quandary arises from the supposition that Grant is the victim of hereditary insanity. Everything works out satisfactorily, however, when the Brewster aisters reveal that Mortimer is not reallv their nephew but the son of a chef on an oceaii liner — or, as he calls himself, "a son of a Sea Cook." Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, members of the original New York stage cast, again play the two lov-r able but completely daft aunts. John Alexander appears again as "Teddy" Roosovelt, his part in the stage play.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 March 1947, Page 3
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