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Following the same procedure as previous years, the theatre will bring many previous the better-known stars to Cambridge. Melissa Landi will be the first leading lady to appear this season, in "The Damask Check...
...landscapes of a single lone ombú tree, with zinc-white rinsings of the moon, his gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past...
...Damask Cheek (by John van Druten & Lloyd Morris; Produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) gives Broadway its first polite comedy this season. It also gives menacing Actress Flora Robson (Ladies in Retirement, Anne of England) her first ingratiating role. She shows that she can handle comedy as well as emotion, sweetness as well as strength all in one evening...
Laid in Manhattan in 1908, The Damask Cheek centers in Rhoda Meldrum, a plain-looking, vivacious English girl who is visiting her American relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity...
...amusing period study of manners dashed lightly with romance. The Damask Cheek is an act too long. For two acts it sails gracefully ahead, barely skimming the water; then the wind drops, and miles & miles from shore, it has to row itself home...