Word: scatterbrains
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...amateur cast would find its talents inhibited by repeated mechanical difficulties, and a heavy load falls upon the Playhouse's experienced wheelhorses. Burt French, Katherine Whitfield, Carol Wheeler, and John Rand '43 support the double triangle around which the plot moves. Adele Thane as a scatterbrain middle-aged wife is glaringly miscast; she parboils the comic two thirds of her part and convincingly portrays a dramatic third act. Make-up difficulties hamper Robert Bastille'43, for his audience cannot forget that they see a Harvard man disguised as a sexagenarian...
...plot, involving a maze of confused love relationships, centers about the well-meaning female scatterbrain whom we knew in Kaufman-Connoly as Dulcy. It was a role tailor-made for Billie Burke, who acted it in the original version, but Joy Street's Adele Thane plays Laura with a vitality that is not beyond compare...