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...built a play which though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore and a fine company of actors. Miss Barrymore plays the role of the spinster with great technique and feeling as well as a fine sense of comedy. Richard Waring as the student and Thelma Schnee as the serving wench share the honors with Miss Barrymore, while the lesser parts are all finely played, particularly that of the local squire. It is a case of excellent acting making a fine play out of a good one. And best of all, it brings to Boston Ethel Barrymore...
With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...