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Tattle Tales (Barbara Stanwyck & Frank Fay, producers). Eastern theatre-goers are likely to forget that the West Coast, too, has its legitimate theatre. A sample of it is Tattle Tales which, having toured the Pacific slope and then made its way toward the Appalachians by easy stages, finally arrived on Broadway. Its reception was not encouraging to Frank Fay, oldtime vaudeville master of ceremonies, and his cinematically successful wife, Barbara Stanwyck...
...Fay, whose hair is red and long, belongs to that school of comedians originated by the late, droll Raymond Hitchcock. He takes personal charge of the proceedings, tells the audience what is going on backstage and when a joke is too feeble to put itself across. Mr. Fay has an assistant who starts shouting, "Eh? Eh?" This is not very funny...
...Cassidy, Creighton, Churchill, R. G. Claflin, W. L. Clark, Richard Cobb, J. O'C. Conway, J. D. Cook, W. R. Corbin, John Cromwell, P. C. Cummin, Taber de Forest, W. G. Davis, G. R. Dennett, Antelo Devereux, T. H. Edmands, G. C. Fahnestock, G. R. Farnham, E. B. Fay, C. B. Feibleman, Nicholas Feld, E. W. Fischer, R. T. Fisher, F. C. Gevalt, R. B. Graves, William Gray, F. T. Griswold, B. W. Hale, P. C. Henshaw, C. P. Hill, G. A. Hill, J. M. Hill, M. F. Hill, Andrew Hutchinson, E. S. Hutchinson
...husband Howard who introduces the D. H. Lawrence note into the proceedings. Any and all problems confronting this burly man are promptly solved by the sex equation. Thus it is that he perceives, before anyone else, that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage...
...spectators before seeing For Services Rendered realized that Mr. Maugham, better known for drawing-room drama, was still brooding about the War. Few will consider his present play, an incompleted gallery of promising portraits, a dramatic milestone. But no one will soon forget Fay Bainter's tense impersonation in the one three-dimensional role the piece affords...