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Miss Le Gallienne and Mr. Hampden were cited as successful at the Garrick method of verisimilitude in parts. Miss Hayes believes these rather exceptions than otherwise. Their success she thought due to the individual success of the particular actor in a particular role. Indeed, the idea of Alfred Lunt as a whimsical gentleman one week and a traffic cop or bootlegger the next, did not appeal to the erstwhile Cleopatra...
...Immortal Thief. Last season, Mr. Hampden revived Kennedy's The Servant In The House. This season he begins with Tom Barry's The Immortal Thief in a continued effort to reconcile once closely related religion and drama. Perhaps it is because Mr. Hampden's particular symbols of religious fervor are alien to modern audiences that his efforts fail to win popularity...
...Immortal Thief originates in the New Testament account of the crucifixion. In Walter Hampden, innately a scholar and a gentleman, it is difficult to see a tigerish outlaw of harsh Jerusalem. Yet there he is, leaping to good, plunging into evil, denying the gods, always thinking of them, a strange duality of ruthless passion and grand sacrifice. He breaks a fellow thief's legs, cuts off the hand of another, supposedly traitorous. To atone for his cruelty, he sacrifices himself to save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau...
...Steuer, defense attorney for Mr. Daugherty, is the most dramatic courtroom lawyer in Manhattan. Like a skilled actor in a play, he allows each trial to shape his emotions; then he turns about, leads the jurors to his viewpoint as deftly as a Hampden or a Barrymore leads his audience. Mr. Steuer† once advised young lawyers...
...Walter Hampden, dean of actor managers since the death of Henry Miller, will continue at his own theatre in classic repertory, including Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. He also promises a modern play...