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...role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns from Ireland to "this precious stone set in the silver sea . . . this England" to make the melancholy discovery that he has all but lost his sceptre...
...been associated with actors (God bless 'em!) all my life but the vainest man I ever knew was an editor...
...true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven in desperation to focus upon a murderous thought...