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...Author Herrick's hero 371 pages to find the answer. Psychiatrist Redfield met Abnormal-Psychology Expert Massey at a murder trial. Redfield was a man; Massey a woman; both were middle-aged (in fact, grandparents). They fell in love: or at least Redfield thought they did, for Dr. Serena Massey became Dr. Redfield's mistress. Redfield's wife was dead; so was Serena's husband, but Serena would not marry again because she said she wanted to keep her independence. But they went off on scientific investigations together and had a high old time...
...blandishments and caresses which shameless young women, seeking employment, lavish upon him. Changing places with his composer, he is astonished to find that Ilona Stobri (Ruth Gordon) is attracted to him rather than to the one whom she believes is the director. She gets the job. To Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children) went kudos for making a triviality a delight...
...striking suggestion was that of Constance Collier, 52, big, throaty English actress (The Firebrand, Our Betters, Serena Blandish, The Matriarch). Like many another talented person, notably Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin (now retired), Miss Collier suffers when dogs suffer.* Suggested she last week: "If vivisection is so necessary, why not experiment upon persons who break the laws instead of upon animals...
Playwright S. N. Behrman. whose frolicsome plays (The Second Man, Serena Blandish) were admirable, does not use ponderous syllables to transmit his new solemnity. His idiom is rapid, keen, unfailingly dramatic. For Alfred Lunt he has provided another personal success with perhaps the most picaresque role of his career. For the Theatre Guild, smarting from the rebuffs given Karl and Anna and The Game of Love and Death, he has made the season happier...
Most heartbreaking it is to find at the Hollis, where the Theatre Guild is opening its Boston season, that Lynn Fontanne has nothing to do. The play is "Meteor", by S. N. Behrman, who wrote "The Second Man" and "Serena Blandish". And though Miss Fontanne is in it, on the stage, in fact, for a good part of it, she is a distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic...