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...part of De Larnae is being played by J. D. Lodge '25, the president of the Cercle, and the role of Paul de Lavardens goes to Ernest Iselin '26, a veteran of many former French plays. Emlen Etting '28, who distinguished himself in the Cercle's fall production "Le Monde on Pon s'ennuie" is playing the part of Jean Reynaud and M. Perrin is taking the title-role...
Helen MacKellar played the star role. A day or two after the critics had expressed themselves, she repented and avowed publicly her intention of quitting the play. The move was generally regarded as a further play for publicity, since she must have had time in the rehearsal period to let the significance of her material sink in. She swore sincerely and her performance was generally considered competent...
...finely did the action cut to the truth. In the second act, and indeed throughout the play, the purist would cavil at the lapses into broad relief; too often cleverness passed for wit, and gross business for eyebrow innuendo. For the over-dramatic, Mr. Rathbone, in the tutor's role, was the only possible offender. It was naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires to the audience as it was for him to do so to his idol. In his scenes with Miss La Gallienne his passion verged very closely on the conventional; she never fell...
...other than Baker, and there will be such men. Harvard would have shown great wisdom in giving Baker or some other man a permanent school of this sort, assured that it could find his successor, I quite fall in with the suggestion of Walter Pritchard Eaton for such a role. He is an able critic and a man well-informed on the theatre...
...desire for clean plays, and offered to remove his production from the boards--as soon as six or seven other managers whose plays he declared were just as had did likewise. To cap the climax Miss MacKellar's pathetic refusal to endanger her reputation by playing the leading role has been made public. One guesses correctly that the play is still being performed before packed houses, and Miss MacKellar's name still heads the program...