Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...
...Hume Cronyn received a hearty welcome from the first-nighters for the good work he has already done in Boston, and his performance belied no one's expectations. Cast as the hoosier dramatist, he is triumphantly ludicrous throughout. He confides, grins and goes into raptures just as country boys, according to dramatic convention, always do. None of the actors uses any restraint, but in a farce of this sort the heavier the lines are drawn, the better...
This poppycock is acted with such dash and ingratiating crudness that the show proves a succession of highly amusing situations productive of constant laughter. Teddy Hart, Jean Casto, Hume Cronyn and Betty Field stand out in a cast which is admirably fitted, physically and vocally for the strenuous activities of "Three Men on a Horse." It's the McCoy...
Medieval Mummery THE FOOL OF VENUS-George Cronyn -Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside...