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...Pelican. From London a success of last season necessarily attracted attention since it came on the heels of The Vortex, of similar history, if for no other reason than that. Moreover Margaret Lawrence and that extraordinarily fine English actor, Fred Kerr, were playing the parts. Therefore everybody went in high expectancy? was pretty sadly disappointed...
Though Mr. Dean's theatrical efforts have been chiefly confined to European production, he has also attained a high standard in the plays put on in this country. "Peter Pan" with Marilyn Miller, last year, and Noel Coward's "The Vortex" are outstanding among his triumphs...
...corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...When The Vortex was in rehearsal, A. L. Erlanger, veteran of theatrical production and real estate, removed his name from the program because he objected to the situation in the third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that...
...hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy, one of the sharpest, funniest comedies that you are likely to witness through the winter...