The Theater: The Sixteenth Critic

Most nonconformist of Broadway critics is the World-Telegram's wiry Burton Rascoe. He throws vitriol while his colleagues are pouring honey, ecstatically waves his arms while his colleagues are turning down their thumbs.

Featured in last week's Jacobowsky and the Colonel was Hollywood's pretty Annabella, wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power. The French cinemactress—who rose to fame in Director René Clair's Le Million —was making her Broadway debut. Critic Rascoe charged from the show to his typewriter, abruptly started off: "An incredibly talentless actress who calls herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last...

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