New Play in Manhattan

A Thousand Summers (by Merrill Rogers: Arch Selwyn, producer) utilizes the services of three capable players: Jane Cowl, Franchot Tone, Osgood Perkins. Miss Cowl leans tragically against the furniture ; Mr. Tone renders his celebrated portrait of a pent-up adolescent; Mr. Perkins is characteristically urbane. But A Thousand Summers remains a play of actors' attitudes.

It relates the tale of a mature and refined lady of easy virtue (Miss Cowl) who has fled to an obscure country inn to escape one of her lovers (Mr. Perkins). There she meets a young U. S. tourist (Mr. Tone). These two fall in love, but Actress Cowl is restrained from consummating the affair by the request of the youth's well-meaning aunt. As a result, an unscrupulous female servant beats Actress Cowl to it. seduces the young man in a boat house. Everyone is properly contrite over this unexpected turn of events, but all promises to be well since Actress Cowl, as the curtain falls, is making preparations to follow the young man to Paris where his aunt will not be present. The last half of A Thousand Summers is notable for its ability to embarrass an audience.

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