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...International Incident (by Vincent Sheean; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is a first play by the foreign-correspondent author of Personal History and Not Peace But a Sword. It is not much better than a first play by anybody else. A comedy, it starts off with fair color in its cheeks, but gets paler and paler, and ends looking ghastly...
...Sheean writes amusingly at moments, and Miss Barrymore performs amusingly all evening. But it takes more than an incident-international or otherwise-to make a play...
...names of Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Sheean and Guthrie McClintic, collected under the head of "International Incident," sound like an eternally perfect triangle, but the illusion is unfortunately brief. In his first stab at playwrighting Mr. Sheean has far from lived up to his share of the bargain. Luckily, though, his chief character is in the hands of Miss Barrymore, who makes every minute of her presence a treat...
...case of romance, spiritual conversion, and propaganda jitters. Convinced that her charming presence is a menace to American neutrality, Rogers tries to make her give up lecturing, and instead almost becomes her next husband. His affair is unconvincing, and the audience is never sure whether Mr. Sheean has decided to write about romance or the state of the nation...
Afternoon conferences on various subjects will be inaugurated next year, and the weekly evening dinners with important newspapers will be continued. Within the next few weeks, John Chamberlain editor of Fortune, Arthur Krock head or the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Vincent Sheean, foreign correspondent are scheduled to talk to the Nieman Fellows...