Production and Players

Dr. J. Kahn produced the play, and he did a very good job with the relatively inexperienced cast and extremely small stage. Some very clever groupings helped to overcome the latter difficulty. The decor was appropriate but not exciting.

Lindsay McDonald's performance as Dr. Gortler was most convincing—so much so that at times I forgot that he was Lindsay McDonald and the worried little refugee professor really lived. Sam, the landlord, was handled well by Pat Hutchings although sometimes his North-country accent was a little too thick to be completely audible. Baska Goodman, as Sally, his widowed daughter, gave the best performance of the evening. As an anxious mother who is also a busy, rather officious landlady, she combined sympathy with an air of matter-of-fact self-confidence.

Walter Ormund, hard-working hard-drinking company director, was played surprisingly well by Arch Barclay. To show the Sailings and misgivings of an obviously strong character is difficult, and his hand-ling of the fluctuations of mood was realistic, especially in the scenes with Dr. Gortler.

Betty James and Paul Treadwell have both given outstanding performances in the Society's productions this year, but I was rather disappointed in them in this play, although I suspect the fault may be largely due to their lines, and to the fact that the behaviour of Mrs. Ormund and Farrant is the most improbable thing in this whole unhappy melodrama. With this handicap, Betty James played the disillusioned wife with commendable sensitivity, and Paul Treadwell, the skeptical schoolmaster with a natural assurance, but how could these two find so much attraction in each other? Surely, even in a time play, people do not fall in love without having better reason, than the fact that they have done so before. .