Love Idyll For Once, Heroine Eats Her Cake, Has It, Too “ON* WOMAN’S STORY,” * OFD re lease, produced by J. Arthur Rank and Ronald Neame. directed by David Lean, screenplay by Eric Ambler, Stanley Haynes, and Lean from a novel by H. O. Wells. At the Playhouse. THE CAST Mary_Ann Todd Howard Justin_ Claude Rains Steven Stratton_Treror Howard Pat __Isabel Dean Miss Lapton_Betty Ann Davies Servant _Arthur Howard Hotel Manager_Guido Lorraine Hall Porter_Marcel Poncln Chambermaid_Natash Sokolova Plowerwoman _ Helen Burls Emigration Official_ Jean Serrett Charwoman_Prances Waring Bridge Guest_Wanda Rogerson Solicitor__Wilfred Hyde-White The English picture “Brief En counter” was enormously popu lar here as well as there. Love is rarely treated so idyllically as in that screenplay, and humans who had found the emotion harsher and less innocent in their own lives reveled in the affair between Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. Nevertheless, among the sigh ing multiude there were those who had vague feelings of dissatis faction. Nothing really came of the romance, these felt, and it left them somehow sad. It was as if the principals in Noel Cow ard’s story had been, after all. too noble and had carried honor too far. “One Woman’s Story,” another British picture which opened yes terday at the Playhouse takes care of all this loose-endedness. It also is about a surpassing and tender love, involves a much long er encounter, and Ann Todd as Its heroine performs that delight ful miracle of eating her cake and having It, too. "One Woman’s Story” is by no means in the same class with the earlier picture. It is as artificial as a soap-opera in many respects, but it is redeemed from its defects to some extent by immaculate acting; far better acting than it deserves. This it gets from a cast dominated by Ann Todd, Trevor Howard and Claude Rains. Miss Todd, as the heroine of an H. G. Wells novel adapted here by a trio of screen writers, is the dream girl of synthetic romantic fiction. Prom Rains, as her hus band, she gets luxury, security, so cial position and the like necessi ties of her nature. Prom Howard, her lpver, she derives the excite ment of love as a passionate emo tion. It is in the nature of such in volvements that a woman must eventually make her choice be tween them. Miss Todd does not escape this duty, but it is so long deferred that she is allowed years of ecstactic play on the variations represented by the two men. The three principal performers are sufficient masters of their roles to make them seem plausi ble when the faintest of second thoughts must indicate they are nothing of the kind. The single failure to be chalked up against them is that which comes at the picture’s climax. It could not have happened that way but it has been so sweetly sophorific up to then that it does not much matter. J. C. 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