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This week's all-talking offering at the Metropolitan. "The Doctor's Secret," is definitely above the average of such productions. The story, founded upon a play by Sir James Barrie, gives Ruth Chatterton the opportunity to turn in one of the best performances of the year. As the wife who is frustrated in an attempt to escape from an unhappy married life, she succeeds in presenting a vivid and subtle characterization. The plot is simple but furnishes the able cast with a very interesting problem in domestic ethics...
Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject...
There is a leisurely and poetic thoroughness about the piece which should recommend it to many. There is a fair performance by Ruth Chatterton, a good one by Ralph Forbes and an extraordinarily fine one by Robert Loraine, seasoned and admirable English actor who is too seldom lured to our actor-thin theatre...
...single satisfactory performance of the entertainment was offered by Ralph Forbes as Gavin. Mr. Forbes is Miss Chatterton's husband, lately acquired. He seems rather to have reversed the usual complication attendant upon marrying a famed actress...
...fragile sentiments of the narrative seemed stifled and oversweetened under the joint ministrations of Miss Chatterton and Mr. Dean. Heretics insisted that Barrie was in no small part to blame...