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...accompanies Wolcott Gibbs when he lightly pans a play. Simply the usual "polishing and tightening" which a Boston tryout promiscs will not prevent a waste of considerable talent, talent scarcely evident in the ragged performance on Monday night. With Basil Rathbone cast in his famous role, a script by Ouida Rathbone based faithfully though eclectically on five of Conan Doyle's best stories, and the rather curious but impressive attraction of Jarmila Novotna in the cast, it is hard to believe that the producers can't eventually come up with something better than they have...
...Rathbone to study his part and play Holmes rather than a House Dick, they can cure the major ill of the play. To make Sherlock Holmes effective, however, they must dispense with the flashbacks, the muddled staging, and the exaggerations of acting in the minor roles. In the meantime, Ouida must straighten out the story line, which now leaves justice inexplicably triumphant in the last act. Certainly the present state of Sherlock Holmes, with the sole assets of Steward Chaney's sets and the charming, if superfluous Mme. Novotna, will not satisfy Doyle addicts, who have waited since the days...
...lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper...
Fortnight ago Ouida Rathbone was at it again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...
...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...