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Best Performance (actress): Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory, May Robson in Lady for a Day, Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade...
...Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned off. She had little Scots patriotism, no bigotry, a great gift for hatred and revenge, a warm and grateful heart. The Scots, intent on being Protestants, were suspicious of her. England's Elizabeth feared, hated and envied her. Mary...
...Barrymore, after much face-making in the most approved Hollywood manner, has at last remembered that he is an excellent actor. His subtle and penetrating characterization in "Topaze" is now followed by another fine performance in "Reunion in Vienna," the piece de resistance at the University this week. Miss Wynyard turns in a capable and convincing performance as Eleana, as does Frank Morgan as her husband. May Robson is up to her usual high standard and the supporting cast is excellent...
...lines that are clever and nothing more. And it is this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with the aforementioned aid of Barrymore and Wynyard. Unfortunately, for some inexplicable reason, a large chunk of the best scene has been deleted...
Lest this be taken as a slight to Lynn Fontanne, let it be said that her rival, Miss Diana Wynyard is neither better nor worse, which means that Diana is now queen of Hollywood's ball room women--there being two classes of actresses at Hollywood, ballroom ladies, and livingroom ladies. Miss Wynyard has a new coiffure and sports a new and spritely manner in her delightful acting of the part of Eleana, at once wife of a psychiatrist and mistress of an exiled Archduke. All Eleana shows is that, be it ever so sophisticated there is no place like...