New Plays in Manhattan

The Late Christopher Bean (by Rene Fauchois; Gilbert Miller, producer). Playwright Sidney Howard has drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde `a la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived a little while and died. Where are the Bean pictures? There must be dozens of them left about the place. They are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Duped out of a pair of Beans he has in his house, the amiable doctor becomes frantic in his search for the paintings, which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found--and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation. Shy, shrinking Actress Lord's last two parts (one before: The Truth About Blayds) have required her quietly to maintain a fierce loyalty to a dead genius. She does it excellently. Walter Connolly also has a typical role of frustration, performs capably as usual. Producer-Director Miller, who seldom misses, has not missed this time.

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