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...plot of the production hinges about a poor shopkeeper's family, which has risen to great wealth through a lucky number in a lottery. After tasting the pleasures acquired by its riches, the family returns to its former mode of life, which it considers far more enjoyable. Andre Lefaur, who created the original role of Topaze, in the recent play of the same name, which was produced in Franco before coming to this country, has the lead...
...planter, returning home, is first informed that his dog Towser has died. By a slow process of revelation he subsequently learns that his stables, house and mother-in-law have been burned up, his wife run away with a drummer. Author Priestley's play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions...
...side, sings songs which are relayed endlessly by the other members of the cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...
...pseudo-philosophical ideas need to be developed with proper kind of dramatic emphasis to be as effective as, for instance, Outward Bound. This one is not. It moves too slowly and its ingenious story idea does not conceal the fact that its authors were so dazzled by their plot that they failed to investigate its possibilities. Warner Baxter performs with the dignity proper to a patriot aware that he is dead. Ablest things in the picture are probably the work of its director, William Dieterle, and the shot of a crowd which has heard about the Captain's demise...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...