Word: byington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner for Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from her relatives and his predecessor help both cravings to be satisfied but by the time the play ends the Raeburns are on the way to better things. He knows that...
Rachel Crothers' new comedy, "When Ladies Meet," is clever, sophisticated, and light, but not convincing. It continues, however, to be one of the season's attractions at the Royale, and many have lavish praise for the play, the vast, and the delightful helter-skelter performance of Spring Byington...
...comic lines are relieving, and Spring Byington, the casual widow at whose country home the meeting takes place, is the grace note in a play where everyone else has something on his of her mind. But even with the uniformly excellent acting. "When Ladies Meet" by little more than good entertainment...
Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
Between flighty Actress Byington, breathlessly restrained Actress Inescort and ingratiating Mr. Abel, the extremely professional Crothers script should be a source of pleasure to playgoers for months to come...