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Colonial--"The Admiral Crichton" Sir James M. Barrie plus Walter (Hamlet) Hampden plus Fay Bainter...
...Admirable Crichton was revived last week with capable Walter Hampden as the cosmic butler, childlike and charming Fay Bainter as Lady Mary Lasenby. The opening was fresh and amusing with a message from Playwright Sir James Barrie read by William Gillette (first Crichton in the U. S.). But modern spectators, accustomed to tight playwrighting, could not help feeling that Acts II and IV are, while pleasant, structurally useless...
Retired. William Gillette, 74, oldtime U. S. actor (The Admirable Crichton, Dear Brutus, Diplomacy), dramatist (Held by the Enemy, Too Much Johnson, Settled Out of Court, Sherlock Holmes), member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters; from the stage; after a final performance in Pittsburgh of his revival of Sherlock Holmes (TIME...
Included among recent additions to the Everyman's Library (E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1928), are W. Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel of the perfect servant. The Admirable Crichton, lately immortalized by the movies: The Life and Letters of John Keats edited by Lord Boughton: The Brothers Karamazov (2 vols.) Thedor Dostoevsky, generally conceded a place as one of the greatest works of the age: The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan...
...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...