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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...
...Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays nicely as Madame Walewska...