Word: cossart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernest Cossart capably handles the weighty, but not meaty, part of Pusey, an omnipresent butler who is equal to everything but the attribute of paternal self-sacrifice imposed on him in the last scene. Joel Asheley's characterization of an actor in the red and a painter in the pink is over-boyish and too awkward. Vicki Cummings, as "Penny" not only wears exciting clothes well (her first appearance in a shimmering strapless almost brought down the first balcony) but carries off her gay grass-widow's role with a deft touch of cosmopolitan hauteur. Ellanora Reeves is attractively convincing...
...expect Martin to do another strip, you'll be disappointed, although she does show a prodigious amount of leg. Her forte is the musical numbers, and she is superb here. Though Mary may not strip, the chorus does, and Dudley Digges and Ernest Cossart take a bath, but not at the same time. The latter could be cut and the former should definitely be prolonged...
...chorus and the showgirls are, nearly every one the biggest assets in the show. Such famed beauties as Kay Aldridge and Mildred Law will not go unrecognized by frequenters of the Shubert and dippers into Vogue. The veteran cast includes, beside Digges and Cossart. Cora Witherspoon, Mary Wickes, Jack Smart, and Eddie Green of "Duffy's Tavern." All are capable comedians without suitable material, but, all join in the chorus, "By the time it reaches New York...
...many a season. Byron McGrath's portrayal of the vitriolic Jack Manningham will send chills jumping from vertebra to vertebra for three solid hours. His tortured, neurotic wife, as played by Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street" he reaches full stature, playing a tender-hearted sleuth with an ever-present bottle...
...Towne version shows Dr. Arnold as no Mr. Chips but a hard-hitting, God-fearing birchman. He takes over the school to find it riddled with bullies and liars, throws out so many students that the only trustee who supports him is equally God-fearing Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart). Dr. Arnold's job of reform is not half done when Squire Brown sends his son Tom to Rugby...