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...other players, only Katherine Standing, Richard Whorf, and Rose Gordon held parts of any considerable importance. Briggs of Scotland Yard was played by C. Wordley Huke, but the part was so typically that of a stage detective, that the importance of the role was hardly proportionate to the amount of time given it. Miss Standing was not quite successful in leaping the obstacle mentioned at the start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left...
Alan Mowbray in the role made famous by Holbrook Blinn is no less effective, one suspects, than his more famous predecessor. The old uncle is usually amusing but not always convincing in the hands of C. Wordley Hulse. And Morris Carnovsky, as Morgan Pell, the unfortunate husband, is required by the author to confound all plausibility by announcing to his wife that dogs who do not know whom they belong to should be beaton, and wives as well...
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