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Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
Noah (by Andre Obey; Jerome Mayer, producer). Playwright Obey begins this naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith...
Substitutions: Sage: Smith, Mayer. Lowell: Abel, Adlis, Culver, Stern...
Foils: John C. Rowley (H) defeated Ballon (B), 5-1; Wallace H. Cox (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-2; Edwin G. Davis Jr. (H) defeated Jennings (B), 5-1; Ballon (B) defeated Cox (H), 5-3; Davis (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-0; Rowley (H) defeated Jennings (B), 5-1; Aleibiades E. Sophes (H) defeated Ballon (B), 5-2; Rowley (H) defeated Mayer (B), 5-2; Cox (H) defeated Carpenter...
Epee: John Ashmead, Jr. (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Albert E. Weiner (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Hans H. Zinsser (H) defeated Mayer (B), 2-0; John L. Daniels (H) defeated Mayer...