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...Flame Within (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For attention from the current cinema, Department of Justice agents' only rivals on the distaff side are female psychiatrists. Like Dr. Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall...
...four honorary theatrical patronesses are Ina Claire, Margaret Barker, who starred in "Men in White," Mildred Natwick of "The Distaff Side," and Clara Butler, who played the title role in the Dramatic Club's "Sarah Simple...
...hoped that Ina Claire, stage and screen star, who is now playing at the Plymouth Theatre in "Ode to Liberty" will be able to act as a patroness with Margaret Marker, of the Group Theatre, and Mildred Natwick, who played in "The Distaff Side." Whitney M. Cook '36, president or the H.D.C. announced that the Freshman club would be continued next year...
...Distaff Side" received a rather warm reception in New York and New York is said to be a critical town in its sophisticated way. The gentlemen of the press did not attack the play with any violence, they didn't damn it with faint praise, they just accepted it as the solution of the rather considerable problem of Aunt Matilda making her annual pilgrimage to the theatre. "The Distaff Side" remains that sort of play and since Boston seems to contain more Aunt Matildas than New York it should be liked in this cultural center...
Rumor has been unkind to this play for it has said that it is a good play. If you want to enjoy "The Distaff Side" don't go to it with that misapprehension--it's a nice play and Dame Sybil Thorndike must be a very nice woman. It's a reassuring play for it demonstrates with properly repressed vigor that the home is the thing, that women make the home, and therefore women are the thing. It has many nice women in it the grandmother is gruff and self-centered but an fond she is really nice. The middle...