Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-five members of the high nobility of Imperial Austria went to Rome last week to act out in good earnest the situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
President Conant has accepted an invitation to attend the pre-reunion dinner of the class of 1914, to be held Tuesday at the Harvard Club of Boston. The class will celebrate its 25th anniversary next Commencement...
...Reunion...
...John Barrymore, after much face-making in the most approved Hollywood manner, has at last remembered that he is an excellent actor. His subtle and penetrating characterization in "Topaze" is now followed by another fine performance in "Reunion in Vienna," the piece de resistance at the University this week. Miss Wynyard turns in a capable and convincing performance as Eleana, as does Frank Morgan as her husband. May Robson is up to her usual high standard and the supporting cast is excellent...
...merely the familiar French bedroom farce with a dash of high comedy flavoring--but how far removed from true high comedy like "The Second Man"--and lines that are clever and nothing more. And it is this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with the aforementioned aid of Barrymore and Wynyard. Unfortunately, for some inexplicable reason, a large chunk of the best scene has been deleted...