Word: molluscs
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Dates: during 1919-1919
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...Mollusc" is a light comedy, with a weak, sentimental ending, but has the virtue of illustrating the all too prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...
Viva Birkett as the "Mollusc", however, is superb. She has remarkable poise, and convinces us from the start that something out of the ordinary will have to be done if she is to be aroused. The device which does eventually arouse her is not strong enough to eliminate credulity...
George Arliss has brought a Barrie play of marked distinction to the Hollis Street Theatre in "The Well Remembered Voice", which is given in conjunction with Hubert Henry Davies' three act comedy, "The Mollusc." A war story with a spiritual theme has to be unusually convincing to hold the interest of the theatre going audience today--the public is rather well fed up now on the war. Yet Barries' play is not only convincing, it is artistic and sets us to metaphysical speculations and analyses, which our ordinary every day life tends to suppress...