Word: eunson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presenting Julie Haydon in Dale Eunson and Hagar Wilde's psychological thriller, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has spared none of the trimmings. Miss Haydon has long been a favorite with both Broadway and summer stock patrons; Andrew Mack's setting is bound to bring designing offers from the main stem, and the acting of the supporting cast is of an unusually high caliber...
...with all this to recommend it, "Guest in the House" does not quite come off either as entertainment or a penetrating psychological study. Miss Eunson and Miss Wilde have hit on a novel idea in having a neurotic girl consciously set out to wreck the happily married life of the Proctors, living in a small house near Trumbull, Connecticut. This kind of thing has undoubtedly happened in many households, in one form or another, and the co-authors never succeed in making the situation quite believable...
There was turkey as well as chicken on the Broadway menu last week. Only the Heart (by Horton Foote), an earnest story about a Texas woman who tried to manage everybody, merely succeeded in depressing the audience. Public Relations (by Dale Eunson) must have depressed even its own cast, who did what they could in a stupefying comedy about a middleaged, divorced pair who were once Hollywood's first gentleman and lady...
Guest in the House (adapted by Hagar Wilde & Dale Eunson from a story by Katherine Albert; produced by Stephen & Paul Ames) introduces the most unpleasant stage character of the season, pretty, white-faced Evelyn Heath. A semi-invalid, Evelyn (effectively played by Cinemactress Mary Anderson) comes to visit some kindhearted relatives, at first proves only a nuisance who demands a lot of waiting on, but soon turns into a back-stabbing monster who plots everyone's destruction. She enrages the servants, drives the husband to drink, wrecks his career, ruins his marriage, makes a shrew of his wife...
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