Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once an architect, the author has worked on the piece intermittently, since 1916. Two chairs in the play once belonged to Robert Louis Stevenson, who was the husband of Mr. Strong's grandmother...
Peggy Wood (whose fame so transcends that of her own husband, John VanAlstyn Weaver, that he has been facetiously called Mister Peggy Wood) makes a good wife; Katherine Wilson is real as the seductress who "makes" a good husband; Playwright Strong has made a good play...
...deeply tragic play, The Wild Duck is revived beautifully by the Actors' Theatre (which produced it five years ago), with Blanche Yurka as the placid wife of Hialmar Edkal and Dallas Anderson as her husband. Ralph Roeder is Gregers Werle who drops the final curtain by announcing that his true mission in life is ". . . to be thirteenth at table...
...nurse is the most important character in the play. Her idea of DUTY is a strange mixture of hate for the invalid's wife, love for the invalid, horror of sexual irregularity. Of her, the mother says: "I cannot help feeling sorry for a girl who has so much virtue and so little charm...
...three women in the play are cast almost perfectly. Clare Eames, as the nurse, is tremendously moving, though once or twice a little over-hating. Casha Pringle, as the wife, is a small-faced, tense English girl, who, when she removed her opera wrap in the first act, revealed a figure which caused the audience to gasp with approval. Mary Jerrold, as the mother, is wise and charming...