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The "Boomps-a-Daisy" continues As a student of the Elizabethan period. Miss Robson enjoyed playing the monarch a soco time.

From the beginning of her sta career, Miss Robson has played chai acter roles. Often she has been called upon to create the part of a murderes, as she does so effectively in "Ladies in Retirement," or of other types of neurotic women, who usually would not be expected to win the sympathy of audiences.

It is a tribute to Miss Robs that her audiences share her feeling of sympathetic understanding for the tortured women she pictures on the stage. ance to Miss Robson. approaches a new part in that So she is glad to be back again, playing under the direction of the man who taught her that essential technique, Regindld Denham. Mr. Denham, who wrote "Ladies in Retirement" with' Edward Perey, is acting also as director of the melodrama in its Broadway presentation by Mr.

Albert Basserman, the 72-year-old German actor, was singled out only a few weeks ago for his outstanding performance in "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" A great actor in Germany elbe has found his "pot of gold" in America, the land of unlimited opportunity,

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