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Actually as well as metaphorically, this Twelfth Night is a composition in warm colors rather than bright ones. Desmond Heeley's permanent set, which does a great deal to determine the mood of the play, is done in browns and golds, never drab but always subdued...
...perhaps thank its stars not to boast any; this Twelfth Night, as directed by Michael Benthall, gets its fine effect from its ensemble effect. Actors who know how to speak Shakespeare, to do wonders with an intonation, know also how to join hands. Desmond Heeley, with his charming costumes and simple set resembling an old, delicately drawn tailpiece or design, knows how to achieve a background. There is for once in the theater the sense of letting something deathless prove its mettle and not of belaboring something lifeless to move its limbs...
...Because Alice Marble, a muscular California girl who had tired herself out with a 108-game match a few days before, also dropped off the U. S. team, Miss Palfrey had another match on her hands an hour later. She and Helen Jacobs beat Dorothy Round and Mary Heeley, who was wearing a glove on her racket hand, 6-4. 6-2. With husky Helen Jacobs' 6-4, 6-2 singles victory over demure Miss Round-whose tennis manners suggest where she learned the game, on the lawn of her father's vicarage at Dudley, England-it gave...