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...Lady From the Sea. Miss Blanche Yurka is entitled to one of the awards of the season for her loyalty to Henrik Ibsen. In a year which has been marked by the presentation of a great number of dull modern plays, theatre-goers have not been allowed to forget Ibsen's searching studies. Her selection of this strange, borderland work is not altogether fortunate. It is not so easy of interpretation as The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler, her other offerings, nor is its principal character so suited to Miss Yurka...
Last week in Manhattan, two seasoned actresses undertook Hedda Gabler, in different theatres, simultaneously. Admirers of the two ladies, as well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It was unfortunate and misleading, for the Misses Le Galliénne and Yurka have scarcely anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons...
...Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...deeply tragic play, The Wild Duck is revived beautifully by the Actors' Theatre (which produced it five years ago), with Blanche Yurka as the placid wife of Hialmar Edkal and Dallas Anderson as her husband. Ralph Roeder is Gregers Werle who drops the final curtain by announcing that his true mission in life is ". . . to be thirteenth at table...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...