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...Gordon is cast in a part of ample opportunities, opportunities which he realizes to the fullest. He plays the role of Witzel, an Englishman who has spent seven years at his African post at the cost of most of his ideals and all of his illusions. He renews the repetation as an actor which he won with Boston audiences at the Copley Theatre a few years ago, and he establishes himself for the first time as a successful playwright. For after all is over, it dawns upon us that the author of "White Cargo" really has something...
...interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable performance...
Medal and its concomitant $25,000 cash prize. After a flaming peroration, Mr. Davis turned to the tall, grave, stoop-shouldered Englishman by his side, introduced him formally to the company and tendered him medal and check. Long and hearty was the applause that followed; long, able, accurate the speech that Lord Robert then made in reply...
...William Randolph Hearst. Said the Post: "What wonderful things luncheons at fashionable restaurants are!" Mrs. Hearst was referred to as the wife of "the great American newspaper magnate who attacked England so bitterly at the time of England's danger. ... It might be thought that no Englishman would ever desire to have anything to do with him again...
...poet the hero of the performance. As played by Richard Bird, a young Englishman who came with Havoc (TIME, Sept. 15), even the customarily brilliant performance of Katherine Cornell was slightly shaded in comparison. Miss Eames, Mr. de Cordoba and Mr. Cossart completed one of the soundest and most dextrous casts it is the playgoer's fair fortune to contemplate...