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...Eldridge, Hobart's younger brother Ben Smith Hobart Eldridge Thurston Hall Lady Violet Wyngate Jane Cowl Hugo Willens John Halliday Sascha Barashaev, pianist and John's flance Marshall Grant Phoebe Eldridge, Hobart's wife Lily Cahill Clendon Wyatt, young American Rhodes scholar Robert Woods Nikolai Jurin, Russian emigre Jose Ruben...
That Where Sinners Meet is a genuinely amusing farce is due less to the smug whimsicalities of A. A. Milne's The Dover Road, from which it derives, than to the charm and delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise...
...great hams left, of whom one of the primest is Reginald Owen. His interpretation of an Englishman is indeed unique and extremely boring, even as Americans view him. Miss Wynyard and Mr. Brook don't seem to work too well together, and Mr. J. Walter Ruben, who has never produced anything very startling, certainly didn't help them along to any great extent...
Most of the poems which are presented after this introduction bear out Mr. Craig's assertion. One notable exception, however, is Ruben Darlo's "To Roosevelt". In this poem there is nothing unworldly: the poem starts with an expression of Latin-America's admiration for the driving energy of the United States, symbolized by Theodore Roosevelt, then bursts into a violently nationalistic denunciation of the United States' imperialistic aims...
...quite different sort is Ruben Dario's vividly descriptive "Sonfonia en Gris Mayor" (Symphony in Gray). In this is given a very real picture of the sea on a glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...