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...Hopkins presented Alan Alexander Milne's Give Me Yesterday, produced in London in 1923, by the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1929, called Success until a few days before its New York premiere. It relates the pastel-tinted tale of the Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M. P. (Louis Calhern), who has decided that the world is too much with him, that it would be better to chuck everything and return to the irresponsible life of childhood...
...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...
...previously been at pains to point out (The Life of Cesare Borgia), is a much maligned warrior and statesman whose evil reputation is attributable to the lying tongues of his envious contemporaries. To save the state of Solignola, Panthasilea Degli Speranzoni (Lily Cahill) attempts to ensnare Borgia (Louis Calhern), but instead falls in love with him and ruins her plot. When Solignola falls, she comes home to witness her family's disgrace, her lover's triumph, snatches from him a poisoned cup and drinks it. Aware of her own clan's infamy and Borgia's greatness...
...settings of The Tyrant are heavy, mournful, consistent with the drama. Miss Cahill and Mr. Calhern will probably be even more excellent in their roles when they have learned their lines...
...Rhapsody concerns itself with the problems of Lodar Baron (Louis Calhern), a Hungarian composer who still harbors a persecution fixation, brought on during the War by a brutal sergeant in his regiment. From time to time the composer disappears to go on informal manhunts when the thought of his onetime superior obsesses him. When the able ministrations of a mistress and a sweetheart are incapable of assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain...