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...scene opened each day, all press correspondents were rigorously excluded, the British Government strategically obliging even the Indian press to apply for information and handouts of speeches to Capt. Wedgwood Benn, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India...
...Bottle. Jane Cowl has introduced this comedy by Benn W. Levy (adapter of Topaze) to alternate with her performances of Twelfth Night. The play is well above the average as to script, is ably acted. Miss Cowl assumes the role of a lady who, having run away with an artist who later abandoned her, returns to her husband, son and daughter after 20 years. She finds her son in love with a model, her daughter in love with her seductive artist, her husband in a quandary. The final unraveling of all this is perhaps overlong, but splendid are the queenly...
What this actually meant appeared when Secretary for India Wedgewood Benn told the House of Commons that the Cabinet was not attempting conciliation with St. Gandhi or other leaders of the Indian struggle for self-government...
...must wait for the restoration of normal conditions," said Captain Benn squaring his jaw. He also asked for an appropriation of $650,000 for the India office...
...play was adapted by Benn W. Levy from the French of Marcel Pagnol. It is a preposterous fable about an incredible ass. But its exaggerations are those of a sophisticate who embellishes his careless satires with delicately hilarious details. Frank Morgan as M. Topaze apparently does not mind the fact that his role is basically unbelievable. He makes the figure by turns pitiful and ridiculous and frequently almost real. It is perhaps the most enjoyable of his many fine performances. Phoebe Foster is sleek and chiselled, a decorative element without which the play would not have been properly translated...