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Elsie Ferguson, other-worldly beauty of the silent cinema (Peter Ibbetson, with Wallace Reid), first starred on Broadway in 1909, was set for a Manhattan comeback 13 years after she had retired. She will play a wandering house guest in Beyond the Farthest Star, a play Author Rose Franken describes as plotless. Miss Ferguson...
...Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia gravitates to Mother with the velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that...
Claudia (by Rose Franken, produced by John Golden) is a bride of a year (Dorothy McGuire) whose architect husband (Donald Cook) has established her in a Connecticut farmhouse de luxe. She is also childishly established in an attachment to her mother. It takes pregnancy and the knowledge that her mother has an incurable cancer to begin to grow Claudia...
These are the bare bones of a play that rests entirely, and not very solidly, on characters and moods. It has every asset as to cast-and the very young, very Irish beauty of Dorothy McGuire would focus anyone's attention on the heroine. But Playwright Franken, a veteran ladies' magazine fictioneer, either does not know or thinks it would not be nice to reveal that what she is handling is the very serious subject of adult infantilism. Claudia's unhealthy immaturity remains masked for three acts behind a screen of tedious, relentless Ladies' Home Journal...
Twenty-five dollars each went to Paul L. Franken '40 of Winthrop House, for a discussion of "The New England Whig"; Harrie Lewis '40 of Lowell House, for "Destiny and Dishonor: An Essay on Helen Hunt Jackson and Indian Affairs"; and T. L. Wolford '41 of Adams House, author of "Pilgrimage to Utopia: E. L. Godkin...