Word: barrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harpo Marxish accordion player called Milton Delugg. Eve Arden as a wealthy patroness of odd theatricals proved to be a front of witty dialogue, Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes that seem destined to play an obligate for this gay company for a good many Broadway weeks...
Josephine Hutchinson of the Eva LeGallienne repertory company and "Alice in Wonderland" scores again as the daughter of a fanatical mountaineer. Trained as a nurse, she attempts to aid her ignorant and hostile neighbors by her medical skill, but Pa, played by Robert Barrat, is the horse-whipping type, and, resenting the manner in which his daughter "keeps sticking her nose into other people's business", administers several lashings so convincingly that the audience greets his death with applause...
...Wrangling between the two companies with the unscrupulous methods of the foremen in the organization of Robert Barrat. Brent's brother, produces a drama of tense action while in the background, perhaps a little too much in the background, is the romantic element...
Genevieve Tobin is Robinson's leading lady, playing the part of a disillusioned gambler's wife. Glenda Farrell is the other woman in a triangular love affair while others in the cast include Robert Barrat. Hobart Cavanaugh and Gordon Westcott...
...Robert Barrat, as Anderzian the Armenian blackmailer, is appropriately slick and villainish; while Eugene Pallette does a good job in the role of Sergeant Boggs, jumping at conclusions, trying to pin the murder on the first person at hand, using third degree methods...