Dangerous Curves. Adapted by Gerald Verner from a Peter Cheyney
novel. (Garrick.) , Tins was a play that-got all dressed up and had nowhere to go with outrageous costumes by Stanley Parker, perfume by Dior, settings by Glock, production by Bock—Mr. Danny Kaye has it off pat. A Peter Cheyney-Slim Callaghan tour de farce, it is in the nature of a Restoration comedy with a plot that Mr. Ustinov would have revelled in (gangster episode in Love of Four Colonels) and dialogue restored from an American comic at least fifteen years old (" you're telling me "). The action is somewhit complicated by the introduction of scenes played behind a gauze which I first mistook for a large television screen which the actors switched on when they tired of their own play. It also has the usual memorable theme-tune which eludes me for the moment, and Mr. Terence de Manley as the predictable detective whose ventures into sentences more than five words long appeared to be his undoing. It was difficult to tell whether his admonition : " Stay where you are " was addressed to
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