Shadow and Substance

And the role of the young girl, a little caretaker in the house of the canon, though built out of materials that in cruder hands would quickly betray their spirit and such a restrained gentility of writing ink that, if it is cast at all appropriately, it can hardly fail to dig into an audience's emotions.

The straw out of which Carroll has fabricated his bricks and built his play is of a superior quality, and his dramatic structure, as a consequence, mounts aloft with eloquence and power.

Directed by Peter Godfrey, settings by David M. Twachtman, costumes by Helene Pons, and the art director was James C. Scully.

Soon after, Dowling gave the rights to a Josephite priest in New Orleans named Edward Francis Murphy, who worked with theater students at Xavier University of Louisiana.

[3] Charlie Chaplin purchased the film rights in 1942 and wrote a script, intending to cast Joan Barry in the lead.

Sara Allgood in the original Broadway production of Shadow and Substance (1938)