Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for June 19 3 1 101 The Stage in Review Continued from page 87 the season in "As Husbands Go." It's a laugh-epidemic from the beginning to the end. John Golden has cast it to the queen's. A married woman and her widowed friend, both from Dubuque, shake a wild leg in Paris and bring back to Dubuque an English writer — for the married woman — and an international gigolo of an elderly and monocled breed for the widow. The husband is the town bankerBabbitt, but also a wise guy. The drunken scene between England and Iowa is a perfect work of the comic art. The widow keeps her Boulevard pick-up and marries him. But the English lover likes the husband so well that he streaks it back to London, sinless and conscienceclean. The dialogue snaps like a Bismarck herring. If it wasn't for a bit of a let-down in the third act, I should pronounce 'As Husbands Go" a little masterpiece. Catherine Doucet, gurgling, bouncy, mock-satiric and mock-stupid by turns, was the main works, with Lily Cahill and Jay Fassett as the wife and husband perfect seconds. No one can tell Miss Crothers how to write a play. "Napi" Napi is the pet boudoir name of La George, of the Comedie Frangaise, for Napoleon, the fellow, as you remember, who continually got his military It mixed up with his primordial It. Ernest Truex, who plays a double for Napoleon in order to get him out of his trouble with La George, is a funny picture and decants a great many laughs out of the audience, especially in the bedroom scene in the second act. Truex is a fine comedian — he has gusto and a chirrup in his voice and motions. The play itself is hopelessly thin and bodiless. A corkingly comic idea, there isn't enough action or dialogue to stretch it out for three acts. But Truex as a fake Napoleon is worth the price. The Misses Frieda Inescourt and Peggy Shannon decorated the stage. "Privilege Car" A circus story that is overloaded with color, character and humor, but that wabbles, creaks and flounders in the telling like a bank examiner before a District Attorney. Foran and Keefe, the authors, have laid their piece in the restaurant car of a travelling American circus — there's the handy shoplifter, the dopey dip, the trapeze performer, who is stooling for another circus, the clean cornet-player, and a lot of other rough-and-tumbles who are well-drilled and quite recognizable. Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Tyler, William Foran and Lee Patrick get prizes for their acting in this show that will make a rousing picture for the not too-arty zones. But the authors try to tell us too many stories in three acts. "A Woman Denied" Mary Nash is good Old Original Sin to the bitter end in this lurid pash play from the Italian of Gennaro Curci. The yarn runs this way : An artist has a Barbara lying around his studio for art purposes only. 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