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...situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other Senate seat, held for two decades by Byrd Man A. (for Absolom) Willis Robertson, 78, who is also being challenged by a moderate, State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45. Chances are that the cumulative psychological effect of two attractive challengers will work against both organization candidates...
...largely of crossing the slang out of comic strips and reading them in a British accent. But comic strips can be and are often funny; the best comedy in The High Road is out of "Bringing Up Father." Lord Trench (Frederick Kerr) is Dinty Moore to his wife (Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot; in some...
...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...