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Although her delivery at the premiere was a bit too leisurely, Marjorie Gateson has fun with the best role in the play, that of Lady Hurf, who proclaims herself "born a piece of old carpet" and "disintegrating with boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...
Though Dodd works with movie people intimately, no big stars are active members of his parish. Some who do attend: Bryant Washburn, Jonathan Hale, Monte Blue, Marjorie Gateson. Dodd likes movie people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...
...runs his department store and his love life at the dictates of the constellations. Both face a crisis when Dinwiddy learns from his astrologer (Andrew Tombes) that for the first time in 15 years his horoscope is right for a proposal of matrimony to his secretary. Myrtle Tweep (Marjorie Gateson). His success, from a planetary point of view, depends upon his bringing together before midnight, a pair of youthful lovers. Dinwiddy's attention settles on a cirl, Caroline Wilson (Eleanore Whitney) who, hiding in the honeymoon cottage in the furniture department when the store detective chases her for doughnut...
Marjorie Gateson, playing her first leading role in a non-musical production, proved adequate to the emotional demands made upon her, though in the last act, when she seemed facing ruin, the author made her draw too long a face over...
...opening acts laid in the garden of a bungalow on the roof of a New York apartment house and its final act in a little settlement high up in the Andes mountains of Peru. A notably strong cast will support Miss Binney, among the players being Marjorie Gateson, James Gleason, Irving Beebe and others whose names are potent drawing cards in musical comedy. A smart and sprightly dancing chorus of twenty-eight and an orchestra of twenty-four are a part of the entertainment...
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