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...Simon Called Peter" company, Harold Webster, recently with Jane Cowl and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, who is now playing in "Cleopatra" with the Theatre Guild, Elizabeth Patterson, star of "Candida" and one of the best known of America's character actresses, and Ann Carpenter, prominent member of the "Beggar on Horseback" cast...
...Beggar on Horseback recently returned for a short run in Manhattan after a remarkably successful road tour. In my opinion, it is the most important work of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It is filled with Mr. Connelly's curious fantasy and delicate humor?the same that promises to be in evidence when his new play opens in the autumn, that was notably apparent in the small sketch he recently wrote and acted in for The Dutch Treat Club Show, annual performance of that jour- nalists' and artists' society...
...himself doing something of real importance. A little Irish blood goes a long way toward making a poet and I suppose there is Irish in Mr. Connelly (and in Mr. Marquis). If you are interested in the graceful, the light, the quixotic and the truly humorous, watch Marc Connelly. Beggar on Horseback is a vivid contrast with the other expressionistic play on the boards, Processional, is far superior in the quality and clarity of its imagery...
...methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live our lives...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The return of a curiously contrived satirical comedy that laughs at big business, art and social climbing...