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...receive. Best Sellers (by Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer) was adapted from the French by Dorothy Cheston Bennett and is concerned with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes to call. Fournier is jostled and insulted by the secretaries, office boys, critics, novelists who jam the great man's office. He is allowed to cool his heels until the publisher learns that the prize committee has capriciously given its award to Fournier...
Plymouth--"Whistling in the Dark." Ernest Truex. Superb, obvious, clean humor...
Whistling in the Dark. Here is a combination of facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals...
Next victim is to be a prominent citizen who is conducting a civic investigation. The gang put it squarely up to the perfect murderer: either the investigator's life or his own. When Mr. Truex substitutes powdered sugar for the cyanide things begin to look very dark for him indeed. He saves himself and his fiancee by the neatest trick of the melodramatic season. Whistling In The Dark is not a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, but it has wit, freshness...
...Third Little Show. Had this revue not opened the same week as The Band Wagon it would have seemed a fairly remarkable production. For the most part it is above-average entertainment, featuring puckish Beatrice Lillie and small Ernest Truex (Lysistrata, Napi...