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...third production of the current season, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has wisely chosen Samuel Raphaelson's sophisticated comedy about New York drama critics. Neither an extremely intellectual nor a provocative play, "Jason" does offer reasonably amusing entertainment and affords Conrad Nagel, a fine actor, an excellent opportunity to star as Jason Otis, most austere of the critics...
Since, at best, "Jason" is only a triangle play with a new twist, the acting of the two men and the wife must be top-notch. Fortunately Conrad Nagel provides the necessary suavity and elegance along with enough warmth and kindness as Jason to overcome the essential priggishness of the character. William Mendrek, though, as the passionate humanitarian, Mike Ambler, carries the first two acts. His crisp and colorful performance of the half-genius, half-charlatan, stands fair to steal the show until Mr. Nagel gets his chance in the third act, where he manages the review-dictating scene with...
...cast of the Cambridge Summer Theatre has caught this spirit of the authors of "The Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives...
...made up as thickly as his famous father's Hunchback of Notre Dame, huge (6 ft. 2), horrific Lon Chaney Jr., complained he was getting heavier parts than his father ever got. Slumped gigantically against a Hollywood stage prop, he gratefully accepted a light from Cinemactress Anne Nagel, moaned: "I want to do character roles, not robot parts...
...Memorial. As Guthbert J. Twillie, he teams up with oomphy Mae West in what amounts to a series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling...