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...young Edward's sake, Arnold Holt commits arson, practices blackmail, ditches his mistress, makes a wreck of his wife, blarneys the girl Edward has got with child. Edward himself, not much good to begin with and monstrously spoiled, turns into a wastrel who is killed...
...probably wise as well as ingenious, for the play really scores as the whopping success story of a ruthless charmer who begins as a small shopkeeper faced with bankruptcy and winds up a potentate and peer of the realm. With bright humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems a bit of a phony as well as a phantom...
...play does not lack insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...
Undergraduate ventriloquists, magicians, lecturers, and accordionists will soon have their best chance since the war to peddle their skills through the Student Employment Office, John W. Holt, head of the Office, announced yesterday...
...Holt said a great demand for entertainment of all kinds has brought about the reorganization of the Office's Entertainment Bureau for the first time since it went out of business in 1944. Under the direction of Miss Mary L. McLain, it will specialize in finding jobs for entertainers of any sort at such events as children's parties and church bazaars...