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AREN'T WE ALL?Smart, sophisticated, sparkling English comedy, giving Cyril Maude every opportunity to score as a delightful old reprobate lord who sought his amourettes in the depths of the British Museum...
AREN'T WE ALL?Smart, sophisticated, sparkling English comedy, giving Cyril Maude every opportunity to score as a delightful old reprobate lord who sought his amourettes in the depths of the British Museum...
...this time by a pleasant young gentleman, who thinks his wife is abroad, to a pretty girl, slightly under the influence of her own voice singing a love song. The wife discovers the kissers?and complications begin. Of course all are finally reconciled after many humorous misadventures that offer Cyril Maude any number of delightful chances to score as Lord Grenham, the father of the oscillatory husband, a charming old beau, who believes in kissing early and often, even in the wastes of the British Museum...
...Ranken Towse: " In this fragile but amusing piece, which hovers constantly on the border line between farce and comedy, Cyril Maude fairly comes into...
...solid if unspectacular contribution; The Adding Machine, with its satire, gloom and power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...