Word: chrystal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Park--"Craig's Wife"; 8.15 o'clock. Chrystal Herne winning the Pulltree Prize in the neurotic sweepstakes...
...Paris. YOUNG WOODLEY-The tribulations of a schoolboy whose first love is the wife of a faculty master. THE GREAT GOD BROWN-A stirring and occasionally obscure play by Eugene O'Neill discussing ex-pressionistically how an artistic spirit was submerged by modern competition. CRAIG'S WIFE-Chrystal Herne giving a keen portrait of a woman whose home became a sanctum in which even a husband had no place. THE WISDOM TOOTH-Glowing fantasy about a poor clerk who became a boy again for a few hours. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden's more or less annual...
...Chrystal Herne gives an amazingly fine interpretation of this misguided female. Seldom will you see such arresting and authentic playing. It is to be feared, however, that her performance will not avail. A character so intensely irritating and a last act so over- worded are not to the public taste. Yet the play has far more merit and a sounder purpose than nine out of ten that spread their wares along the various counters of Manhattan show shops. Weak Sisters. Bawdy humor of undeniable effectiveness is woven through this entertainment. The ladies of the title are ladies of questionable occupation...
Permitting Chrystal Herne to roam at large as the girl from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...
Every character in the piece is black. For the most part Southern actors were recruited for the roles. The cast displays a collective competence, led by the capable Chrystal Herne in the name part...