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...Robert Turney's drama shows how Leda Ferroni, the refugee, is led to murder and finally to total insanity in her unscrupulous struggle to keep her past a secret and to make her future happy. The key to this happiness is the possession of a baby, but psychologically Ferroni is unable to have her own. So she goes about winning the affection of the two little girls while posing as a friend of the family. It is all quite effective, and the secret room itself, whether it is intended as a symbol of Miss Ferroni's hidden past...
...characters except Miss Ferroni and one of the children. Not that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just overpowered and temporarily hidden...
...Edmund Turney Allen had survived many a forced landing and some crashes in a quarter century. But he had always brought his defective ship in, had reported in carefully scientific terms what had happened and why. He had first-flown at least 80 types of aircraft, and, because he was also a research engineer, he was always able to find and report the changes that must be made to make an airplane safe and efficient...
Barrymore's burlesque of himself proved more bumpy than bumptious, his ad libs flabbier than flip. But he did let go a few Royal Family burps, and enough offside lines to indicate that this Jerry Horwin-Catherine Turney farce might yet be "good theatre," with old John really strutting his stuff...
Wednesday, 24th December, 1845-In re conference with Senator Turney of Tennessee...