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...FABULOUS LIFE OF SARAH BERNHARDT -Louis Verneuil-Harper...
Matrimony Pfd. (adapted by James Forbes and Grace George from the French of Louis Verneuil; William A. Brady, producer) is a diverting exercise in marital and premarital geometry, involving nothing so elementary as the triangle. Linda Lessing (Miss George) is an aging, easy-going lady who feels it is time she married, having had three lovers and a son, now grown, whom she was able to send to a good school because two possible fathers claimed his paternity, thus making him "almost legitimate." She is about to marry Victor Martinet (A. E. Matthews) who is aware of her past...
Jealousy (Paramount). Louis Verneuil's play was much praised on Broadway last season for technical cleverness -its only characters were the ex-mistress of a boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable...
Jealousy is played by a cast of two persons (Fay Bainter, John Halliday) and a telephone. Its one set is a neatly furnished studio; offstage noises are confined to round knocks upon a resonant downstairs door. Jealousy, which Eugene Walter derived from the French of Louis Verneuil, will be a popular play among little theatre addicts who have no cash...
...first time M. Gémier comes to the U. S. and in Manhattan is producing and acting plays by Lenormand, Frondale, Berr and Verneuil, Gorsse and Forest, Moliere, Beaumarchais, Fabre, Shakespeare...