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...Empire broadcast also included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...Haggett Lionel Barrymore Abby Marie Dressler Mrs. Haggett Beulah Bondi...
Marie Dressler, in the part of Abby, is adequate; she is not the actress that Barrymore is actor, but there are a few high spots. Beulah Bondi, in the straight character role of a withered New England wife, gives one of the best performances of its kind that has been seen in some time. The picture, for all this fine individual work, is a coordinated whole, a tragi-comic performance which will entertain the audience from beginning to end, and remain in the memory...
...impact of this situation on the doctor (Lionel Barrymore), his avaricious wife (Beulah Bondi), his daughters and the family retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...play, Christopher Bean emerges in the cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...