Revival

The Admirable Crichton was revived last week with capable Walter Hampden as the cosmic butler, childlike and charming Fay Bainter as Lady Mary Lasenby. The opening was fresh and amusing with a message from Playwright Sir James Barrie read by William Gillette (first Crichton in the U. S.). But modern spectators, accustomed to tight playwrighting, could not help feeling that Acts II and IV are, while pleasant, structurally useless.

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