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...Damask Cheek" was written especially for the star by John Van Druten, who wrote "Old Acquaintace" and who is a master of the art of gently delineating the foibles of women. To recount the plot would be like dissecting a cobweb. It is enough to say that it concerns a rich and charming but unmarried Englishwoman who is sent to America in 1909 to find herself a husband. The resulting play is frankly nothing but a pleasant comedy of manners. It makes no pretensions to anything but amusement, and it goes about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate...
...this generation's truly great dramatic actresses appearing in the Boston staging of "The Damask Cheek," Flora Robson, the dynamic English actress whose flaming intensity and superb technique have made her dramatic roles great creations, turns to comedy for the first time, and does in beautifully...
...other hands "The Damask Check" might be coy and cute. It is not. It might be patronizing, heavy, and dull. It is not. It might be warn, humorous, graceful, and satisfying...
...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...
...famous silken tone ... his justly remunerated mastery of the musical marshmallow, were like so many cushions of damask and down to the musical ear.... It was admirable and fine and swell and O.K. and occasionally very, very beautiful. The guy can fiddle. . . . Four-starred superluxury hotels are a legitimate commerce. The fact remains, however, that there is about their machine-tooled finish and empty elegance something more than just a trifle vulgar...