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...helps to shatter the glittering surfaces of Author Frederick Lonsdale's play by hammering them with irrelevant elaborations. His cast-with the exception of Gertrude Lawrence-does likewise. Hugh Wakefield delivers parlor witticisms with a smile more vehement than that of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting-a defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...abroad, to a pretty girl, slightly under the influence of her own voice singing a love song. The wife discovers the kissers?and complications begin. Of course all are finally reconciled after many humorous misadventures that offer Cyril Maude any number of delightful chances to score as Lord Grenham, the father of the oscillatory husband, a charming old beau, who believes in kissing early and often, even in the wastes of the British Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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