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Laid in Manhattan in 1908, The Damask Cheek centers in Rhoda Meldrum, a plain-looking, vivacious English girl who is visiting her American relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity...
Doubles--Glidden and Roberts (H) defeated Winston and Mahoney 4-6, 8-6, 7-5; Thackera and Helmholz (H) defeated Kessey V. and Keesey, H. 6-2, 6-4; Wallis and Lowman (H) defeated Meldrum and Coleman...
Singles--Winston (A) defeated Thackera 6-3, 6-4; Glidden (H) defeated Meldrum 8-6, 6-3; Helmholz (H) defeated Howell 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Mahoney (A) defeated Bontley 6-2, 8-6; Robertson (H) defeated Keesey, V. 7-9, 6-2, 7-5; Wallis (H) defeated Coleman...
...cast: John Winter A. W. Wilkinson Ariadne Jean Goodale Hector Chadwfek J. C. Cort Hester Chadwfek Mary Capen Janet Ingleby Louise Graham Mary Margaret Hughes Horace Meldrum R. A. Sullivan
Australia, young and traditionless though she is, has produced her quota of artists, and an Australian exhibition is now in progress at Burlington House, London. There is little, however, that is distinctive of Australia as opposed to the art of other modern countries. The chief figures are Max Meldrum, Norman Lindsay, Hugh Ramsey, George Lambert, Heysen, Gruner...