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Counsellor at Law (Universal). George Simon (John Barrymore) is a talented criminal lawyer, happy in his profession but less fortunate in his home life. This set of circumstances provokes him, before the picture is over, to make a suicidal dash for the window of his deluxe office. A conservative rival has threatened to have him disbarred for framing an alibi for a petty thief ten years before. Simon has thwarted this move by discovering the rival's mistress and illegitimate child but his triumph is spoiled by the actions of Mrs. Simon (Doris Kenyon). Instead of staying with...
...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...
Plans have been completed for the radio program which is to be broadcast over station WBZ this evening from 9 to 9.30 o'clock. Selections from the play, and dance music furnished by George Simon and his Confederates will make up the program. There will also be songs rendered by the "Rinehart Quartet," an undergraduate group of singers...
...evenings of Tuesday, December 12, and Wednesday, December 13, went on sale yesterday at Daley's and at Brattle Hall. They can also be obtained by writing to Robert Breckinridge '34, Eliot L-11. The prices of seats have been set at $2.00, $1.00, and $.50. George Simon and his orchestra have been engaged by the Dramatic Club to play for dancing after each performance from 11 until 1 o'clock...
...composed of three selections from the Club's winter production, "Ever the Twain" by Lennox Robinson. Members of the regular cast will take their respective parts in these excerpts, which will be announced by Alistair Cooke, director of the show. For the remainder of the allotted time, George Simon and his Confederates, a well-known Harvard undergraduate orchestra, will offer dance music...