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...stranger to the U. S. stage, Edna Best was last seen in this country in Melo. Actor Marshall, her husband, was the wise and witty scientist, last year, in Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow. Great Britain need not envy the U. S. its Lunts so long as the ingratiating Marshalls carry on. Third of There's Always Juliet's cast of four is May Whitty, a Dame of the British Empire. Impersonating a sort of female super-butler, she has found an infinite and amazing number of ways of saying her chief line which is "Yes, Miss...
...Churchill to the White House for a friendly chat. Enormous Kate Smith, radio singer, was escorted there by Brigadier General Frank Thomas Hines, to get presidential thanks for her entertainment of disabled soldiers. German Ambassador von Prittwitz introduced Dr. Oscar Eckstein of Berlin, adviser to the German Potash Syndicate. Actor Fred Stone, whose mother died two days before, dropped around with his daughter Paula for a brief how-do-you-do. Ambassador Edge, New Jersey Wet, home on leave from Paris, after a conference with President Hoover announced that he was returning immediately to his post but would be back...
...curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...money. The conclusion of Monkey is surprising enough, and the late Sam Janney has managed to interlard his melodrama with agreeable comedy.. Officer McSweeney, played by Edward McNamara. the constable of Strictly Dishonorable who said that it just seemed like police-men never took a drink, ably supports Actor Whorf...
...above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John Anderson, capable theatre critic of the New York Journal...