Word: mannigham
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Francis Lederer, in the role of the scheming Mr. Mannigham, and Helen Shields, who plays his wife, never seem able enough to reach the necessary pitch of excitement. Lederer's villainy is often unconvincingly sinister, while Miss Shields, in the difficult role of a sweet young thing who is preyed upon and is nearly driven to distraction, rarely reaches the emotional heights of fear which could lend a heightened note of terror to the play...
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