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...adjournments. Rex Cherryman, who is swiftly rising to preeminence among young actors, acts as brother and defending attorney for accused. The play (by Bayard Veiller, who wrote other tense melodramas, Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair) moves more swiftly than the law but with all its ruthless directness. Its plot has the fascinating features of a front-page murder story. The Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache. Since all state...
...play as much of character as of plot, and with the aid of an excellent cast the characters sustain the story and give it a tense and stimulating vitality. Mr. Huston is more than excellent; one feels, as depth after depth of his characterization unrolls, that his conduct in each successive scene is the logical sequal to what he has done and said before. John Irwin, as the son ignorant of the ways of the world, much more so of the ways of carnival dancers manages to be unsophisticated without being simple. Eleanor Williams, as the girl Nifty cast...
...only for the terrific excitement piled up by an artfully intricate plot, the play merits such euthusiastic applause as it received. But being so brilliantly acted and propelling itself out of a dirty, bleeding milieu with such passionately ugly and beautiful intensity, it transcends the merely artful and achieves a gritty realty that is truly great...
...ways of Joe College as known to perfect strangers. You see him bursting into sorority houses, hornswoggling the Frosh out of his allowance, necking the co-eds on the steps of the lecture hall. All the joy has fled the campus of dear old Tait, according to the plot, because the star halfback, Tom Marlowe (John Price Jones), has flunked his astronomy just before the opening chorus, two days prior to the intercollegiate crisis with Colton. The heroine, Connie Lane (Mary Law-lor), tutors him for a make-up examination, which he passes?be-cause the professor shows college spirit...
...with a discharged shotgun in his hands. Within lay one Wilfred Peter Irwin, shot in the back, dying. Both men had been drinking for days. Before the guest died he swore his host was innocent, the shooting an accident. But Leonard Cline must stand trial for murder. Until the plot of that true story is unraveled next month before a grand jury, one of the most promising careers in U. S. literature is in abeyance. Factitious folk have tried, futilely, to draw conclusions from the identical first names of Mr. Cline's unfortunate guest and one of his minor characters...