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Tonight and tomorrow night the Radcliffe Idler Club will present as its spring production the best mystery play of the last few seasons. "Ladies in Retirement" was the first of the long series of murder plays, both comic and tragic, that have flooded Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember...
...instance, is so admirably constructed, so logical in development, so clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement," are based primarily on a chain of circumstances, cunningly joined together by the author, but mood is an essential part of the atmosphere of these plays, and sentiment is obviously used to create sympathy for the murdered ones or the murderer...
Hangover Square, by the author of two hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from...
...worst seasons in a generation. Such big names as Maxwell Anderson, Somerset Maugham, Kaufman & Ferber were rubbed out weeks ago. In over five months, not a single original play by a U.S. playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...
Adapted by Rodney Ackland from a Hugh Walpole novel, this is one of those thrillers of the dirty-work-among-the-tea-cosies school -- "Angel Street" and "Ladies in Retirement" are others. Like them, it is concerned with the psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play...