Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1933

For Services Rendered (by William Somerset Maugham; Sam H. Harris, producer). A novel in shortcuts, this Maugham play deals with an English family and its friends. The War has been over 15 years, but its wounds still fester. Father Ardsley is a solicitor, a portly British character of the type that sings carols on Christmas cards. He has a wife, who he does not know is about to die of an incurable disease, and three daughters. Lois (Jane Wyatt) is pretty, selfish and extremely attractive to a rich older man. Ethel...

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