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...FASTER! FASTER!"-E. M. Delafield-Harper...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...
...Miss Delafield's homely comedy of quiet laughter and gentle tears chiefly concerns Caroline Allerton (Patricia Collinge), a dowdy little matron on whom is just dawning the appalling realization that life has no more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only with his paper business and the most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into...
...Ourselves (by E. M. Delafield; J. H. del Bondio & Joshua Logan, producers). Joshua Logan, a corpulent young man with more brains than money, first smelled greasepaint as a comedian with the Princeton Triangle Club a few years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both...
Playwright Delafield comes close to Chekovian penetration in the scene in which the wife, verging on collapse, daubs her face with cold cream while pouring out her anguish to a husband whose attention is distracted by a bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...