Word: selena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
...careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot at Mr. Rathbone...
Another excellent point in this production is the finesse of the technique of Mr. Moscovitz, and for that matter, that of Miss Selena Royle as Portia. The great lines of Shylock are spoken with such sureness and understanding that their greatness is of strike their bargain with Shylock, Mr. Moscovitz very subtly insinuates the true hate and venom of one who has been "spurned as a strange cur". He mingles his fawning and bitterness with laughter of the very cruelest variety. The play remains a dell-part of the character and not mere genius in the poet. In other words...