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Paolo and Francesca. As a picture, perhaps, with its conventional figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
...Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis are together again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised...
Asked for her reaction to the rumored banning of the Junior Dance, Miss Jane Cowl, Hon. '29, and last year's Prom Girl, said "I hope it is banned. Then no one will ever snatch the wreath from me. I do wish I could play Shakespeare more often, though," she added wistfully...
Favorite actress: Helen, Hayes, 28; Jane Cowl, 20; Ina Claire, and Katherine Cornell...