The Cup of Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationshipboss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light.
On a psychoanalyst's couch she rummages among her memoriesbut not very willingly and...
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