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...Gerard Jordan Cassedy...
...Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends of ours. Yes. Dinner at Eight." Built on a frame similar to Grand Hotel and staged by Sam Harris who has almost outdone Herman Schumlin in elaborate settings, the piece gets under way in the Park Avenue...
...resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past, played in a heroic manner by Comway Tearle; there is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past played in a heroic manner by Conway Tearle; there is Paula Jordan, beautiful daughter, smitten by an unfortunate love for the star. All the guests who are invited have unfortunate dealings with one another before the fatal night. An elaborate suicide by gas, the ruin of Jordan's fortune, the estrangement of Packard and his wife, the detection of an affair between...
...woman in the play who is wealthy, careless, good-humored, who knows everybody, has seen every place, and is still amusing. Conway Tearle is the hardened man about town whose crusted cynicism almost dissolves under the influence of the love of Marguerite Churchill, who interprets the role of Paula Jordan. He gives one of the most brilliant performances as a during ever seen. Max Kane, who plays a minor star, gives a convincing impersonation of the stock go-between. Ann Andrews, who wears the clothes of Mrs. Oliver Jordan surprisingly well, does not measure up to the standard...
...MARSHAL Malcolm BancroftCambridge Gerard Jordan Cassedy Cambridge Nathan Phillips Dodge Hyde Park Stuart Callendar Dorman New York City Arthur Foote, II Belmont Carl Henry Hageman Lorain, Ohio Roger Haydock Hallowell Readville Robert Saltonstall, Jr. Readville Peregrine White Beverly Benton Spangler Wood Honolulu, Hawaii FOR TREASURER Bradford Keyser Bachrach West Newton John Warren Beach New York City Richard Soudder Neff Chicago, Illinois Hamilton Young Newton FOR IVY ORATOR Alfred Kidder, II Andover Stuart Scott, Jr. New Rochelle, New York Stephen Henry Stackpole Milton FOR ORATOR William Benjamin Bacon Jamaica Plain James Marcellus Lichliter Columbus, Ohio George Clair St. John, Jr. Wallingford...