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Ethan Frome (adapted by Owen & Donald Davis; Max Gordon, producer). When Max Gordon announced that he was going to present a dramatized version of Novelist Edith Wharton's frosty little masterpiece, the first thing that came to the minds of those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...
...reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized its usefulness, thus loses some of his customary forceful directness. Ruth Gordon, a noted giggler, makes the stage Mattie sillier than Edith Wharton intended...
Several years ago her purchasing became too widespread for her to do all by herself. To her assistance as a special agent under special circumstances went handsome, grey-haired Edith Halpert, widow of Painter Samuel Halpert, onetime efficiency expert for deflated S. W. Straus & Co., and for the past ten years director of the Downtown Gallery...
...that compelling. He acted competently both as the aged philosopher and as the rejuvenated romantic. He sang agreeably except when he tried to force a voice which is naturally light. But he appeared to feel little sympathy for Faust. Finest singing of the evening was done by Edith Mason, oldtime soprano who was rejoining the Metropolitan after a 15-year absence. As Marguerite her round, mature figure prohibited any real illusion but she sang in true operatic style, with expert clarity and finish...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...