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Died. George Warwick McClintic, 76, retired U.S. district judge; in Charleston, W.Va. Famed in the Prohibition era for his merciless punishment of Dry law violators, he sent more than 7,000 violators to jail, in one four-year period gathered in some half-million dollars in fines...
...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...tickets for them, laid plans to get them an eating-and meeting-place of their own and, above all, an experimental theater. (A benefit dance last week netted $1,000 to start the ball rolling.) Circulation of Actors Cues was "nearing" 1,000, with people like Katharine Hepburn, Guthrie McClintic, Joseph Schildkraut on the mailing list...
...International Incident (by Vincent Sheean; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is a first play by the foreign-correspondent author of Personal History and Not Peace But a Sword. It is not much better than a first play by anybody else. A comedy, it starts off with fair color in its cheeks, but gets paler and paler, and ends looking ghastly...
...prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon line, eh?" Sometimes admiring Brian Aherne begs Joan to repeat a pun she has almost forgotten...