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...foregoing may suggest that Man's Estate is a man's play. It is not. Earle Larimore gives an acutely sympathetic portrait of the beaten youth, but the story mounts to its second-act crescendo through the beauty of Margalo Gillmore's portrayal of the girl who, without wanting to, draws the youth back into the shadows of mediocrity. There are other excellent performances by Edward Pawley, Dudley Digges, Elizabeth Patterson and Armina Marshall. Mr. Digges also is to be credited with the direction. The production is flush with the Theatre Guild's usual high level...
...Margalo Gillmore, daughter of Frank Gillmore (one of the founders and now President of the Actors' Equity Association), began her stage career in 1917 after a course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was second woman in a Scrap of Paper, The Famous Mrs. Fair, Alias Jimmy Valentine. She jumped into headlines with Richard Bennett in He Who Gets Slapped. In the last two years she has been a member of the Main Acting Company of the Theatre Guild. Unmarried, she has an apartment of her own and likes contract bridge, cats (three at present), golf, swimming...
...fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love in Mayfair, seen by a singularly innocent young wanton. "Man's Estate" most recent of the Theatre Guild offerings, gives Margalo Gillmore and Earl Larimore a chance to thrash out the eternal question of a young man choosing between marriage and his life work...
Appointed. Frank Gillmore, actor, father of Actress Margalo Gillmore; to be President of the Actors' Equity Association, succeeding John Emerson, playwright, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos...
...Jonson's play, done by the ambitious Theatre Guild. It does not open until Monday, but in the Guild's hands and acted by Alfred Lunt, Margalo Gilmore and Dudley Digges it cannot but be a huge success...