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...Damask Cheek (by John van Druten & Lloyd Morris; Produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) gives Broadway its first polite comedy this season. It also gives menacing Actress Flora Robson (Ladies in Retirement, Anne of England) her first ingratiating role. She shows that she can handle comedy as well as emotion, sweetness as well as strength all in one evening...
...this generation's truly great dramatic actresses appearing in the Boston staging of "The Damask Cheek," Flora Robson, the dynamic English actress whose flaming intensity and superb technique have made her dramatic roles great creations, turns to comedy for the first time, and does in beautifully...
...Druten's deft writing and direction have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez...
...Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember it as the outstanding portrait of a murderess, her motives, and her downfall...
...director of shipping, hardbitten, hard-driving Hector Harris Robson, 52, Australian-born vice president of United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...