Dorothy Mackaill graces the Cambridge Summer Theatre this week in her umphtyumphth performance of Personal Appearance." A Screen Queen in the thirties, she has spent the last two years carrying this play around the stock circuit.
With all her practice she can't help playing the part in good if slightly burlesque style. But the parts of greatest interest to us are the supporting roles, as well done this week.
Jeanne Cagney steals the show with here stage struck farm girl role. A natural for La Cagney, the part is hilarious and life like, with here comedy touch really showing itself for the first time.
Ann Dere as an aging maiden aunt is a bit different from the sophisticated authoress she played last week, more in the vein of here three-year "Tobacco Road" part, but still good. The rest of the cast is capable, with actor-director Bob Perry playing well Dorothy Lambert handling a finicky mother part adequately, and Louise Valery making a nice finance to inventor-mechanic Richard Hart.
The plot of the play is immaterial. It's too much of a comedy, but the acting must be good, even the mugging, and this time it seems to be.
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