Janus

Janus (1955), a comedy by Carolyn Green. [ Plymouth Theatre, 251 perf.] Every summer Jessica (Margaret Sullavan) and Denny (Claude Dauphin) go off to an apartment in Washington Square, where they write novels under the pen name Janus. Jessica and Denny are married, but not to each other. Even their spouses don't know where they go and what they do. But this particular summer their idyll is interrupted successively by their aggressive agent (Mary Finney), Jessica's husband (Robert Preston), and the tax man (Richard Emhardt). It is some time before matters are cleared up and they can return to their writing. A delightful escapist comedy of what even in 1955 was becoming an old school, the Alfred de Liagre Jr. production did good business to no small extent because of its fine performers.