Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure ... has something decidedly attractive to offer in Joyce Grenfell herself. An English monologuist and comedienne, she has the air of a born lady and pretty much of the orbit. Her material is well-bred nonsense and lightly barbed social satire. Her manner is the scrupulously deadpan, just touched with the cockeyed. With impeccable timing and delivery, she impersonates an arch, gushing antique-shop owner, a cheery but firm nursery-school teacher, a rich, cult-crazed American lady.
Armed with her half-dozen best numbers, Joyce Grenfell would be the perfect star of the usual intimate revue. In the present unusual intimate...
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