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Dodsworth (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel by Sidney Howard; produced by Max Gordon). Motorcar Manufacturer Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) sells his business in bustling little Zenith so that he and his wife Fran (Fay Bainter) can enjoy leisure after 20 years of marriage. They go abroad, where Sam is excited by historic sights, Fran by the attentions of other men. She apologizes for Sam to her glassy continental friends, frankly tells him to go home and let her have her fling...
...husband Howard who introduces the D. H. Lawrence note into the proceedings. Any and all problems confronting this burly man are promptly solved by the sex equation. Thus it is that he perceives, before anyone else, that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage...
...spectators before seeing For Services Rendered realized that Mr. Maugham, better known for drawing-room drama, was still brooding about the War. Few will consider his present play, an incompleted gallery of promising portraits, a dramatic milestone. But no one will soon forget Fay Bainter's tense impersonation in the one three-dimensional role the piece affords...
...Auvergne, Bernard Catalan, an aged French playwright, and his wife are about to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. So notably harmonious has this marriage been that the President of the Republic and the Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once betrayed his wife with his amanuensis. But when the fade-back...
...Miss Bainter seemed to have the edge in acting honors over Miss Barrett, although our personal favorite was Mr. Gaul. It was one of these affairs where everyone seemed to be having a good time on the stage, a pleasure, we hasten to add, that was equally enjoyed by the audience...