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...revival of Somerset Maugham's biting comedy about Americans who acquire titles on the other side. Anything by Somerset Maugham is usually worth seeing, and this has Ina Claire to boot. It is placed this far down the list because, although a clever play, the essence of it is no longer as timely as when first produced...
...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...
Wilbur--Ethel Barrymore in "The Constant Wife"--8.10 o'clock.--Miss Barrymore amuses whenever Maugham bogs down...
...Maugham has written an entertaining comedy, which presents some rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for the "gout americain." Miss Barrymore is pleasing to the eye and gives an exceedingly finished performance. Miss Verree Teasdale takes the part of Marie Louise, the attractive but inconstant wife and fills the bill admirably. Mr. Aubrey Smith's performance as John, the prominent and unfaithful Harley Street surgeon, was uniformly...
Thus begins the Somerset Maugham play in which Katherine Cornell makes anything but merry as Leslie Crosbie, murderess...