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Married. Gloria Swanson, chic, sharp-jawed silent film star (Male and Female), who gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
...show's biggest asset is June Havoc's Sadie. In a role that has been played, on stage & screen, by Jeanne Eagels, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford and others, the frisky comedienne (late of Mexican Hayride) does not always measure up. But she lifts the part above its surroundings, is always engaging as June Havoc...
Last evening the Cambridge Summer Theatre presented, prior to Broadway, a sophisticated comedy by Harold J. Kennedy entitled "A Goose for the Gander," starring Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes. At first viewing the play seems to have rather slim chances of a Broadway run, but the plans at present are to exhibit it at other summer theatres and with a rewrite job that would eliminate a talky first act it could very easily become a very pleasant theatre experience. At any rate, last night's opening audience enjoyed it immensely. In short, "A Goose for the Gander" is considerably above...
...Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
...Miss Swanson's performance will be a return engagement to the little theatre, as she made her legitimate stage debut at Brattle Hall but two seasons ago. Known to all movie fans from 17 to 70, it was she who introduced glamour to motion pictures. Starting her career in Hollywood with Mack Sennet and Keystone, her first pictures were the bathing-beauty and cop-chasing comedies of the silent picture era. Soon she was working under Cecil B. DeMille and is said to have caused men to swoon and women to turn chartreuse with envy...