I think maybe I’d like S N Behrman’s plays if I watched productions with stars I was fond of – the plots are so wafer fin and the jokes and characterisation not particularly strong. This was a stage hit for Ina Claire and it’s a good vehicle for a female star (Faye Emerson plays the role here): she’s a glamorous painter in New York who decides to write her memoirs for a bit of cash. Everyone loves her: the intense, principled editor, the man running for senate – but at the end she decides to be single. Good for her. Shame the jokes aren’t funnier.
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