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...group of excited Frenchmen called at the office of the French Administrator of Tangier. Loudest was the owner of Tangier's only French cinema. He was the victim of a political plot, he cried. Spanish citizens of Tangier were planning an anti-French boycott...
...pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England sign the check that bought the Suez Canal...
Wilbur--"Courage". Janet Beecher struggles against extravagance, a frigid aunt, and a silly plot and wins...
Seen in cold type the plot, besides ending up with a sagging anti-climax, contains such venerable stage devices as the arrival of an unexpected legacy just in time to save the furniture from ravening creditors. But under the capable handling of a cast headed by Janet Beecher it takes on a plausibility and conviction that makes the final impression eminently satisfactory. Miss Beecher has the inherently unsympathetic role of a widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them...
...part evidently intended by the author to represent a typical New England spinster she exhales a frigidity and arrogant intolerance that makes it one of the most memorable characterizations of the season. Junior Blake as the youngest and incidentally illegitimate son who causes most of the complications of the plot and eventually brings it through right side up, handles a long part very capably, and the other members of the cast lend more than adequate support. All in all, the ayes have it by a large margin...