Word: sponged
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...with a poignant emphasis that she who would be queen cannot employ the palace as a playroom for emotion. Basil Rathbone is her tutor; Philip Merrivale her prince. They seem manufactured, moulded, polished for their parts. Among the remainder of the consistently competent company are the capable veterans Hilda Spong and Alison Skipworth...
This old-fashioned dramatic rocking-chair is creaky, conventional and labored, though some of its upholstery is not ineffective. Hilda Spong, Juliette Day and Fred Tiden, in particular, do their best with it-but they cannot succeed in galvanizing the body more than momentarily. The French accents employed by the cast vary from the Swiss to the purely Chicagoan. The critics in general have received it tepidly- what praise they have accorded being rather for the work of individual actors than for the piece itself...