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...unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife in trousers ably supports laconic, "stagey" Mr. Hodge...
Briefly told, the plot deals with the life of the Adams family, THE Adamses you know, and what happened when Henry Adams, meek, generous, and above all, conventional, eloped with a stenographer during his summer vacation...
There is nothing unusual about the plot of "They Knew What They Wanted". Sidney Howard has used a none too unique form of the well-known triangle and has contrived to capture some sort of a happy ending by providing a magnanimous husband; a courageous wife, and a good-hearted "other man". But what distinguishes the play, as far as it can claim distinction, is something else again...
...cinematography is good. There are real alligators and fake Spanish moss. The plot calls up tears of Little Annie Rooney...
...have to know anything about tennis to understand it. Even as a generality, the crux of a vague plot, you must recognize in that moment the nice opposition of tensions and sympathies that make any situation either rococo or sublime. Here is a great champion. For six years he has held sway over the whole world, and if he succeeds for the seventh year he will equal the legend left behind by the greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation...