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Harriet (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Gilbert Miller) brings history and Helen Hayes (Caesar and Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria Regina) together again. The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96), from her marriage at 25 till the middle of the Civil War, Harriet is anything but a militant play, is only by fits & starts a serious one. It is more concerned with crinolines than crusaders. Perhaps it had to be. For while Harriet Beecher Stowe was lifted to the heights with Uncle Tom's Cabin, during most of her life she was bogged down in family...
...socialite Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Representative from Needham, divorcee, mother of five. Before a stony-faced committee she argued that if women are good enough to serve in war, they are good enough for juries. Male ridicule had beaten the proposal in previous years. ("Imagine a woman of Cleopatra's type being locked up with eleven men overnight.") Finally the wisecracks came. Roared a chivalrous lawyer...
Said the old Judge, summing up: "Cleopatra had her Mark Antony. . . . King Edward said: 'I abdicate my throne at long last that I may marry the woman I love.' . . . My helpless client found her Shonbrun. . . . Will you lead her to the dark doors of the dungeon or will you lead her to the green pastures and by the still waters...
...touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...
Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...