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...dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their town house instead of the farm. By the time Christina has enlightened Theresa Farley (Jane Wyatt) about the cause of squabbles...
...Days Without End, is a serious and ambitious drama, celebrating Faith. It achieves its purpose smoothly but without that wit which, in plays condoning uncomfortable sophistication, gave Playwright Barry his authority. Handsomely produced by Arthur Hopkins, softly performed in a Robert Edmond Jones drawing-room, it provides Lillian Gish with a role which she acts as gracefully as the easier one her chipper sister has in By Your Leave (see below...
...Twenty guests of President & Mrs. Roosevelt, including Comedian Eddie Dowling and Cinemactress Lillian Gish, had dinner at the White House and saw a preview of a film adapted from Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive, featuring Miss Gish. At one point the President remarked: "Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
...down on their hands & knees to scrub the floors, chip away caked dirt. Artist Allen Tupper True restored the murals and ceiling. Somebody contributed a new crystal chandelier. Last year Denverites trooped into the opera house for the first festival: a revival of oldtime Camllle, played by woebegone Lillian Gish staged by Designer Robert Edmond Jones (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Last week the play was The Merry Widow with Austrian Composer Franz Lehar's nostalgic score.* Most of last week's socialite audience came in period costume, the women in Floradora dresses, the men in early 20th Century...
...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...