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...William and Jean Eckart is conventional, but it effectively catches the spirit of the rambling English country manor; Herman Shumlin's direction is perceptive and crisp, but there are a couple of wordy spots in the first act where the action drags...
Lace on Her Petticoat (by Aimée Stuart; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a garrulous trifle from England about Victorian existence in Scotland. Harking back to the days of ironclad class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...
Though Lace on Her Petticoat made a lukewarm impression on Manhattan critics, it impressed Herman Shumlin's fellow producers mightily. Reason: the play, first legitimate production of the new season, cost only $36,000 to put on, and can survive on a weekly gross of $8,100. Despite adverse notices, it appeared at week's end that Shumlin's low operating costs might enable his backers to get something of a run for their money...
Daphne Laureola (by James Bridie; produced by Leland Hayward & Herman Shumlin in association with Laurence Olivier) is noteworthy only as a vehicle-and a transatlantic conveyance-for Dame Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense...
Playwright Mare Connelly, scenic designer Jo Mielziner, and producer Herman Shumlin will discuss the modern theatre at a Law Forum in Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight...