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Author Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End) had a modest proposal for the British Treasury. Sherriff, whose new play, Home at Seven, was netting him ?3,600 a year, had just had an offer of ?10,000 ($28,000) to write a script...
...Cedric Hardwicke and Frances Leighton give excellent unsentimental performances of Ronnie's father and sister. Arthur Winslow spends his health and, with his daughter's approval, her dowry to clear the family honor. Yet there is never a hint of hand-wringing or "What-Shall-We-Do?" histronics. The feeling of continued hardship is worked in by the skillful use of gloomy, gray photography...
...production (Broadway's first since 1925) is satisfying without being brilliant. It offers a properly tightened version, enhanced by Rolf Gerard's impressive, simple sets. Sir Cedric Hardwicke (plagued by laryngitis on opening night) plays his role with a slow gravity better suited to Caesar than to Shaw, but still with real authority and understanding. European-born Lilli Palmer suits both Cleopatra and Shaw. She is as kittenish as Shaw's Cleopatras always are, as physically alluring as they always should...
...years old and 3,500 miles away, Playwright George Bernard Shaw kept a close, finicky eye on his latest Broadway revival. For nine months he badgered the producers with peppery cables, letters and postcards telling them just how to finance, cast and stage the play. He hand-picked Sir Cedric as Caesar (having coached him in the role in London in 1925), and gave Lilli Palmer his blessing as Cleopatra after Gertrude Lawrence brought her around for a visit last summer. He even passed on the production's Manhattan playhouse...
Having thus warned the producers against paying the actors too much, Shaw advised Sir Cedric not to let his salary be pared: "I like my actors well paid...