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...Beam's. Manhattan beheld the unusual conflict of two plays by the same author opening on the same night last week. The playwright is C. K. Munro,* of England, and his second comedy was Beau-Strings, discussed below. At Mrs. Beam's was done by the Theatre Guild in their best manner, evoked delight from the critics and from those who pay to be amused...
Beau-Strings. The curious title was not affixed by Mr. Munro, at least not in the first place. In London the play was called Storm and Miss Gee, the central part, was played by the Jean Cadell whose abilities are agreeably estimated in the previous review. The part is now played, perhaps some-what misplayed, by Estelle Winwood. Both as a play and in performance the piece seems only a runner-up to At Mrs. Beam...
There are bits of dialogue in both of Mr. Munro's plays that cut so close to home that one cannot but squirm for the human race. For these bits Beau-Strings is worth while. Perhaps with Jean Cadell it would seem amazingly important...
...Playwright Munro in the news last week...
...Massachusetts Historical Society, of which Professor Munro is a member was indirectly responsible for the founding of the new professorship. Four years ago the Society generously offered to give the State of Connecticut a large collection of Trumbull papers which had been in its archives for more than 125 years. This act, inspired by a group of Harvard men in Massachusetts, prompted Connecticut citizens to reciprocate in the same spirit of goodwill, and the Jonathan Trumbull Professorship at the University, is the result...