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CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Walter Hampden again reviving Rostand's classic...
...MERCHANT OF VENICE- Walter Hampden and Ethel Barrymore in a generous and markedly satisfying revival...
Engaged. Miss Mary Isabel Garland, daughter of Novelist Hamlin Garland (The Long Trail, Money Magic, Her Mountain Lover, Wayside Courtships), player for a year in minor roles with Walter Hampden; to Hardesty Johnson, tenor...
...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
...School for Scandal. The all-star touring company presenting Sheridan's play stopped off in Manhattan for a one-night stand and invited an imposing list of notables to witness its magnificence. In the lower boxes were Ethel Barrymore, Walter Hampden, Mrs. Samuel Insull (now playing Lady Teazle elsewhere), Laurette Taylor. All this was rather gorgeous but detracted somewhat from the events on the stage. The events were somewhat at fault themselves and the evening was not conspicuously satisfactory...