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...Good-Bye (by Philip Howard; John Golden, producer). Actor Philip Merivale is unquestionably the longest-suffering man on the U. S. stage. He suffered as the disillusioned Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he grieved as the erring husband in Cynara, he went through agonies as the betrayed Washington in Valley Forge and in Death Takes a Holiday his was the title role. In And Now Good-Bye the handsomely gaunt Englishman is once more presented as a noble and appealing character for whom things are very...
...Shakespearean headliner his just due and then some. As Richard II, Maurice Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive...
...admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...
...Francisco Elaine Barrie Barrymore, currently suing for divorce, made her stage debut in The Return of Hannibal. At the same time her mother, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, revealed that the wedding ring Actor John Barrymore had given Elaine was a circlet woven from tiny strands of gold: "Flexible-like Elaine's marriage...
...account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...