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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skylark (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by John Golden) ushers in the season's first drawing-room comedy. It is a triangle play about the husband, the wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and the advertising agency that has the husband bewitched. Says the wife: Choose between me and your job. He chooses her, becomes her dream man again. Then he breaks his word and takes another job; but this time, for reasons Playwright Raphaelson keeps piggishly to himself, it's hip hip hooray with the wife...
Skylark has the sleek look of good drawing-room comedy-a luxurious stage set, a pile of monogrammed wisecracks, a cynical bachelor, a sophisticated butler, a poison-breathing bitch. But Playwright Raphaelson does nothing with them: they add up to a formula instead of a good time. His most original idea has been to have his characters spend most of their waking hours on the telephone...
SKYLARK-Samson Raphaelson-Knopf...
...playwright and screen writer, Samson Raphaelson is as good as they come. His light comedies (The Jazz Singer, Young Love, Accent on Youth) not only packed them in, critics liked them too, praised their deftness, wit, freshness. But Broadway and Hollywood are not Parnassus. Skylark, a fluffy first novel originally written as a play (serialized in the Satevepost as Streamlined Heart), last week proved that Samson Raphaelson's stuff is better on boards than in them...
Accent on Youth (Paramount). Play wright Samson Raphaelson balanced this fragile triangle on Broadway for many weeks in spite of its perilous distribution of sympathy in favor of middle-age against youth. As a cinema it enlists the aid of Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, whose air of romantic maturity is accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed...