Word: rachele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of a foreign lady who is planted in an American life that is Allen to her has been a favorite subject of Rachel Field's. A few years ago the story of the Prussian Lady who had been married to Samuel Hadlock and brought back to spend the rest of her days under the shadow of the blue Mount Desert Hills on lonely Cranberry Island was told in "God's Pocket." Now in "All This and Heaven Too" there is the same fundamental situation although the details are very different, the characters of Henrlette Doluzy-Desportes and the Prussian...
...wife of Henry Field living in West Springfield and then in New York City. But the whole is well knit. Under the gay lights of Paris, before tragedy has struck her life and with the handsome Due Du Praslin at here side, she sees the actress Rachel. Many years later, as Mrs. Henry Field, she again relieves the past in one of the most moving and powerful scenes Rachel Field has ever written when the great French actress comes to New York, and after many resolves she slips across to the theatre, alone, to see her again...
...THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO-Rachel Field-Macmillan...
...characters are superbly drawn and rendered; in this lies the strength of the play. Charles Waldron, splendid throughout as Captain Dale, reaches his peak in a nine minute speech which holds the audience breathless; Sylvia Weld and Rachel Hartzell are excellent as Dale's daughters, the stubborn and intelligent spirit of the former nicely balancing the dry, almost cynical, humor of the latter. Outstanding are the portrayals of Isobel Elsom and Lillian Foster as Moll Flanders and Mrs. Stowe respectively. Aline Bernstein's set and costumes are well conceived, and Mr. Rice's staging, though at times over-grouped...
...Rachel Field's fictionized biography centres on Henriette's six years in the Praslin household, emphasizes her genius with children, her unimpeachable tact in dealing with her violently jealous mistress, her innocence of the scandals that linked her name with the handsome Duc, the injustice of contemporaries (among them Victor Hugo) who characterized her as "a rare woman...at once wicked and charming...