Word: ediss
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Clive, as the Cockney, Jimmy Gubbins, officially declared dead by the War Office: May Ediss as his step-mother; and Alan Mowbray as Lord Leicester, alias "Spoofy", the shell-shocked pal of Jimmy, all turned in performances the genuineness of which completely wiped out the memory of all their former roles. From start to finish their histrionic powers functioned without a discordant note...
...Mowbray as the young physician made love to Miss Standing, who played the young lady playwright with his left hand while he solved the riddle with his right. He nearly fell asleep along with us but his recoveries out of a sound sleep were nothing short of marvelous. May Ediss was well cast as the mother of the wronged young man and soothed the audience with her well-bred voice. She was in great contrast to the girl's mother, played by Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Dudgeon was the only person on the stage who was supposed to refuse to believe...
...small epitaph should be written for May Ediss, who used a Cockney accent and the leathern boots of a cattleman's daughter. Of course the West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents...
...whole piece is a rare bit of tooling that the players seem to enjoy fully as much as the audience. Jessamine Newcombe's admirers came in large numbers to applaud her return to the company in the role of Mrs. Pampinelli. As Mrs. Ritter, the "born actress", May Ediss developed a laugh that was the leaven of the show. Francis Compton was her hyper-critical husband. Elspeth Dudgeon, as Nelly Fell, Philip Tonge, as Mr. Spindler, and Allen Mowbray, Katherine Standing. Victor Tandy, and Richard Whorf divide the honors in the amateur performance...
...only stage inventor in our memory who doesn't succeed in inventing anything, a pathetic figure. Mr. Compton, as a henpecked husband, Mr. Mowbray, as a Cockney toymaker, and Miss Currier, as a slovenly housemaid, all offer distinctive bits. Miss Standing is an able foil for Mr. Clive. Miss Ediss is several shades too cheerful to be real in face of adverse circumstances. Mr. Tonge as the prospective young bridegroom seems scarcely worth fighting...