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Solitaire (adapted by John van Druten from Edwin Code's novel; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...
Died. Auriol Lee, 60, be-monocled stage director and onetime actress; in an auto accident near Hutchinson, Kans. She appeared on London and New York stages for 30 years, directed the plays of John Van Druten...
...Acquaintance (by John van Druten, produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a treat for acting students. It puts two Big Names on the stage at once-Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood. They might try to mug each other out of the drama, but both have a full kit of the tricks of their trade and they show how mutually helpful such tricksters...
...play itself is less notable than the team of Cowl & Wood. Possibly such a love tangle would stay on the tactful, mannerly plane where Playwright van Druten keeps it. But the chances are that sometime, somewhere, there would be more fumes and fervors than the play reveals...
Leave Her to Heaven (by John van Druten; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brought Actress Ruth Chatterton to Broadway for the first time in nearly 15 years. It was not much of a homecoming. Playwright van Druten's idea of celebrating was to bring on the stage some distinctly unattractive people who do decidedly unsavory things and come to extremely unpleasant ends. And he did his best to make the play as dull as it was depressing...