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...instead of people. At the two Hallam parties-in which most of the action of the play goes forward-the guests behave with such dismal lack of manners that it is hard to believe that anyone clever enough to marry Stella could fail to share her dismay. With this flaw, Another Language remains a sharp, dreadful and amusing picture of middle-class domesticity especially notable for a brilliant performance by Louise Closser Hale, who died last fortnight. Good shot: old Mrs. Hallam reviving from a faint when she hears the Victrola playing at the Victor Hallams' party...
...private tutors, a stage debut with an Oxford repertory company, authorship of three published novels) asserts itself in the Landi presence. Like Ruth Chatterton, Elissa Landi is violently patrician at all times and particularly so when she tries to be the creature of her instincts. This is a minor flaw in an otherwise pleasantly superficial parlor comedy, with modernistic interiors...
...Morgan investigation the individual could find whatever he was looking for to prove this or that economic preconception but the country at large was still too close to the facts to weigh the larger questions of the policy. The tax escape issue petered out when a flaw in the law was popularly understood. The bankers' "friends" being let in on the ground floor of public stock flotations ("Just want you to know we were thinking of you") became the first clear ground for a public stand, and even here the ground was limited. Familiar enough with stockmarket tips...
There appears only one possible flaw in this evolution of business hegemony over politics. City politicians, already tired of the moral dictates of the banking groups, have looked to the federal government for aid on more be lenient terms. But such a policy would be disastrous for good government. The cash reserves of the R.F.C. would answer the dreams of the most exacting political pilferers. Furthermore, a system of federal control on how and where the money should be spent would be virtually impossible. Whatever the immediate stakes of the current crisis may be, the burdening of the federal government...
Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older brother, owner of North Wood Farm and affianced to Avis. When Scotland Yard's Detective Midwinter arrives on the scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might...