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Granting that the Cambridge Summer Theatre had only a few days for rehearsal and that Fay Wray, the female lead, met the cast she was to work with barely 24 hours before curtain time, "Personal Island," Brattle Hall's second offering, is definitely not up to the standards set by last week's "George Washington Slept Here...
...gets girl," is the plot, the "lesson" being that people shouldn't do what others think is best but what they themselves think is best. Both plot and lesson would have been more palatable, however, had there been fewer muffed lines, missed cues and long, embarrassing pauses. Fay Wray has the main part in the show, and the management tells us in the program notes that it "feels honored to have this gracious lady and actress as guest star." Miss Wray, however, must put better expression into her lines and make her actions on the stage more original...
Involved in a more or less histrionic way are, among others, Fay Wray and Betty Furness, a couple of fugitives from the Hollywood quickie lots who don't have too much to do, but look decorative. Hume Cronyn, who has gotten good notices in rather poor plays in the last few years, plays the politically ambitious D.A. and comes out pretty well trying to make a highly exaggerated role bearable through the whole evening. It might also be appropriate to mention in passing that one of the co-authors is the husband of Gloria Stuart...
...WRAY...
Adam Had Four Sons (Columbia). As the stock market is crashing during the 1907 panic, Broker Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) casually tells his secretary: "There's nothing wrong with me that my family won't cure." Forthwith he bustles off to his wife (Fay Wray) and four sons, comfortably settled in an ample Connecticut establishment enlivened by an attractive young governess (Ingrid Bergman). As the Stoddard family bounces along in their touring car or gobbles a big Thanksgiving dinner, they give a pretty picture of opulent early 20th-century existence...