Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Katharine Cornell, emotional and pleasing as ever, again, proves that some play she should be considered America's leading actress...
...play, however good a background it gives Miss Cornell, does not however do justice to her and its success is due entirely to her interpretation. It is Miss Cornell alone that saves a slow moving and dull first act from being a complete failure. The action speeds up however and the last two acts do not let the interest lag a moment...
Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the stage adaptation of Miss Wharton's best seller and she follows the original throughout with few exceptions. The story is the narrative of Countess Olenska's love affairs, both in Europe and in New York. As the play opens the Countess has just returned from Europe after a-shipwrecked first marriage. She settles down on Twenty-Third Street ready to take up again New York social life...
...never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...second picture is entitled, "Two Boys Play Cards", and, while unsigned, is most certainly a Caravaggio according to the best authorities. The painting is in the artist's best naturalist style and the condition is perfect. "Two Boys Playing Cards" is held by some to be the only authentic Caravaggio in the country...