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...Morgan Farley who outgrows his juvenile skin in youth's encounter with matronly magic. He gives a deft and sensitive picture of the lad who discovers that love has its morning-after taste also. William Ingersoll and Josephine Hull (as his parents) and Orlando Daly and Helen Westley give veracious performances in an engaging production that shows the Theatre Guild on a picnic...
...that is, casting. Jacob Ben Ami and Winifred Lenihan (who did well as Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare) offer two performances as fine as anything in the current Theatre. Masterly interpretations in minor parts are supplied by favorite players of many Guild productions, viz.: Dudley Digges, Henry Travers, Helen Westley...
...Guild erred in their usual keen judgment of players. Phyllis Povah is far too wholesome in the leading part, lacking entirely the cutting edge of bitterness to make the character convincing. The remainder of the cast, however, were shrewdly chosen. Particularly competent was the veteran Guild actress Helen Westley (laconic mother who preferred as conversational material lobster salad to liberalism...