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...data, the critics fell to raving about her theatrical versatility. In Lady in the Dark she does virtually everything but play a trombone solo. She is on the stage almost all the time. Gertie (age 42), who offstage has never been in a psychoanalyst's office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from...
...Manhattan novelist who has a paramour in her publisher's office. Unfortunately her old friend and sister authoress, Peggy Wood, has a young daughter who takes the paramour's eye and eventually his heart. In three acts full of adroit handkerchief work Cowl runs a gamut of politely contained emotions and achieves resignation in the end-with the help of old acquaintance. At one point, where she snuffles back her tears, she brings off a little masterpiece of nasal dramatics. Meanwhile Peggy Wood has given a witty picture of a blonde, bird-brained, overdressed, likeable soul...
...were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio programs. She gets a lot of what she feels into a poem about the Theatre's Florida activities. Excerpt...
Running the gamut from a second hand clothing store to a gentleman's tailoring establishment in less than three years, the office at 2 Plympton holds the Square Record for a variety of tenants...
...union of a vapid play and a cast that, with one marked exception, runs the entire gamut from indifferent to very bad is an unfortunate one. If "Boyd's Shop," the Copley's first play this season, lasted only two nights on Broadway, "Return Engagement" had better prepare to go to bed right here in Beantown...