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Coming out to Cambridge to watch a performance of the play which she has been considering as a vehicle for herself, Ina Claire, stage and screen star, was the guest of honor at the Dramatic Club's dress rehearsal last night for "Sarah Simple," the A. A. Milne comedy which will have its American premiere this evening in Brattle Hall...
...Sarah Simple" is a modern drama of manners written by A. A. Milne originally, for Miss Ina Claire, who was present for at least part of the performance last night. Too light and frothy, some may say, but certainly possessing enough of a Noel Coward touch to make it thoroughly acceptable to a Harvard audience. "Sarah Simple" is the type of drama that we have pleaded with the Dramatic Club to attempt...
...specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...
...accordance with the club's tradition this will be the first production of the play in this country. Earlier in the year it was considered by the Theater Guild with either Ina Claire or Tallulah Bankhead in the title-role...
Part of the trouble with Biography of a Bachelor Girl is that there is a great deal too much talk and part is Miss Harding's womanly but determined bludgeoning of the role Ina Claire gaily aired on the Manhattan stage. Montgomery succeeds most of the time in keeping his celebrated winsomeness under control. When at literary work he wears a pair of horn-rimmed glasses with a Harold-Lloydish air. Funniest scene: Horton explaining why he cannot make an honest woman of Ann Harding...