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...production was frequently sharp theater, but was thrown badly off center by Actor Jory's failure to make Borkman either the dominating or the large-dimensioned figure he should be. His Borkman was much too hollowly histrionic, too ostentatiously "tragic." It was Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, as the two sisters, who did most to pace the play...
...Wallace Woodworth's men seemed to have the edge in applause for such numbers as "Spanish Ladies" and "Casey Jones," but the Blue returned in force with "Noah Webster" and "Old Tom Wilson...
...Webster: "Jew ... any person of the Hebrew race or whose religion is Judaism...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
Shrewdly cut and staged by Margaret Webster and handsomely mounted by David Ffolkes, last week's Henry held up as storytelling and scored as pageantry. But it took on no added drama with Walter Hampden a stately cipher in Wolsey's role, Victor Jory messing...