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...rest of them-a competent cast headed by beautiful Vincent Price and lissome Elissa Landi amble through a pleasant play that occasionally skitters along the edge of being a tour de farce. Actor Price is the same restrained, terribly patient young man that he was as Albert in Victoria Regina...
...elegant Laurence Housman, 72, a younger brother of the late Great Poet A. E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad), holds the distinction of being England's most censored playwright. Beginning in 1902, when his Bethlehem was suppressed, he has seen 32 of his plays banned by English censorship, Victoria Regina among them. Like that play, his others have come under the censor's ban not because of any raciness or hurtful satire, but merely because of a technicality which prevents public performance of plays portraying his favorite subjects: living royalty and the "holy family...
Actress Helen Hayes (Victoria Regina) worded her address of welcome solemnly: "The Council feels that perhaps the theatre has been backward in meeting new conditions, in adapting its methods to a changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA...
...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...