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...from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home. The friend whom the discovery should have cured dies. A Berlin physician tells the doctor that his work has been wasted. When the wife returns to bid her husband good-bye she chooses, like Candida, to remain with the man who needs her most. slips on her laboratory apron again. Actor Abel and Actress Christians, a German importation, perform with intelligence and force but their lines do not convince. Spring in Autumn (by G. Martinez...
Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...
...year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...
...theme is unimportant, but the set- ting is grand. As in countless other plays, "Candida" for one, a beautiful young wife must choose between the new respectability, social idealism, and homey security, as against reckless emotional love. The lovely lady is Elena of the Aristocrats who has faced the revolution bravely and become the wife of a psychoanalyst, eminent in "Vienna's only remaining industry." This is not a marriage of love or understanding, just a practical marriage, and has been made miserable with specters and names from Elena's glamorous history. Then the relicts of the Hapsburg Court return...
Married. Richard Bird, British actor* (on Broadway, Havoc, Candida, The Fanatics); and his longtime friend Joyce Barbour, British actress (on Broadway, Havoc, Sky-High, Present Arms); in London...