TRUE-BRITISHERS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 18

TRUE-BRITISHERS.

. ...When Gertrude.Lawrence was'sighed up to appear in;a playin,America,■:'en- ;- titled . "Susan • and- 1 God < (Rachel Crothers's. ..much-discussed'- .novel), .'■ she stipulated 'that:shoiild' the..-'play :runCp" ast the '■ time ;she. wantsito*' be*in < England ■for: the Coronation, she is.to have a month's! leave- otabsehcej1. in:.order ithat she. may v.is;t. London for..the.:festivities. The urge of'British.'playei-3.,mn?ie States' seems :',.to< be.itowartis i.erig?arid arid 'the: Coronation, ;ancl';-,in any-.'-other Britishers are .'going-Hoirie'for,the(May; celebrations... . ■■:■.'.■..''.■:':■

One-of-the theatre's more intense dramas, ."Winterset," from Maxwell Anderson's play, comes here shortly as a'screen presentation.' It is this play for which New York Dramatic Critics Circle awarded Anderson a plaque signalising!, his work, as the-best of the year.' Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo ;- Ciannelli, who -.-> won the unanimous .praise-of critics "and public alike in > the; original Broadway cast, enact- the same roles in the picturisation. With the, settings and atmosphere greatly enhanced; by the. flexibility of the-motion picture camera, : "Winterset" stirringly: reveals romance arising out of the grim efforts of a young man to vindicate the name of his father who'died.the victim of a vicious gang plot,'a: cold-blooded Judge,, and a jury influenced by mob ..hysteria. The youth's.searchifor the ■ real:, culprit _ in the-crime for. which: his father died leads 'him about New' York,-: where fate joins-him with -the man' he .seeks, other guilty persons,: the merciless judge—and a lovely girl who ironically • blocks his life's objective when he learns that: her brother- is the key witness, he: seeks. "Winterset" mants the: screen, debut' of Burgess Meredith. His -stage career is dotted with performances' with Katharine: Cornell, in "The-Barretts of Wimpole Street, _and with other notable engagements. With Margo, the brilliant Mexican actress who achieved1, a sensational ? vogue ;in her stage'-and screen career,: he heads toe 'featured cast, which- includes Eduardo -Ciannelli, John Carradme, Edward- Ellis,? Paul; Guilfoyle, ; r Helen Jerdme,Eddy, Maurice Moscovitch, and Stanley: Ridges.:. :