The Fourposter--Only two characters--Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy--in this one, but they make up in quality what they lack in quantity. At the Plymouth.

Paint Your Wagon--the musical at the Shubert is all about California after the gold rush.

Oklahoma will be at the Colonial through tonight. Everyone knows what it's all about.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is still at the Brattle. Good light stuff.

MOVIES

A Place in the Sun--film adaptation of Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," has been well done and is well worth seeing. It has Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, and it's at the Metropolitan.

The Desert Fox brings in James Mason with a glorification of German General Erwin Rommel. At the Paramount and Fenway.

People Will Talk--is about all kinds of touchy topics and "not recommended for children." Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain are in it and it can be seen at the Astor.

Let's Make It Legal is all right for children. Claudette Colbert plays a romantic grandmother in the Keith Memorial feature.

The Day the Earth Stood Still is science-fiction with a message. It's also at the Boston.

The River (Ganges in this case) is a fine picture about the difficulties of adolescence in an Indian Girl. At the Beacon Hill.