Word: cynara
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...simplicity of the story, the fact that its elements have been used in the cinema a thousand times before, make it easy to overlook the fact that Cynara is a most unusual picture. This is not because it possesses the surface excellences-sensitive direction, by King Vidor, and more than competent acting-with which shrewd old Samuel Goldwyn quite often equips his productions. It is because Cynara presents, with sombre thoughtfulness, a situation which the cinema almost always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences...
Plymouth-"Cynara." The distinguished English actor, Philip Merivale in a wistful comedy...
...pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...
...percent of plays in which a man who should do better falls in with a shop girl. The fraction, however, must be a large one. Also large is the percent of actresses who succeed in making the little shopgirl completely artificial. Miss Sheridan, however, with such a part in "Cynara," has achieved the most poignant kind of realism, a success that reflects great credit not only to herself but also to the writing of the play...
Practically all the factors which are the motivation behind us whenever we lay down our money at the box-offices are present in "Cynara." There are bathing beauties, polished figures of good society, action, color, a variety of scenes, lines that you want to remember. The company of "Cynara" sets a high pace of action and sparkle. We hope they fill the house...