Old Play in Manhattan

Counsellor-at-Law (by Elmer Rice; produced by John Golden) brings Paul Muni back to Broadway in the role that eleven years ago made him famous. He is still good in the role, and the play's high-grade hokum is still happily uncontaminated by anything the least bit genuine.

>Playwright Rice's portrait of George Simon, an East Side boy who became a spectacular, brilliantly successful trial lawyer, is showy, warm-blooded, diversified. Kindly but tough, Simon is not one-- when a forgotten legal indiscretion threatens him with disbarment--to give up without a fight, or to be finicky about weapons.

Around Counsellor Simon flows the colorful traffic of a busy law office--phones and buzzers, motley clients, miscellaneous secretaries, law clerks, switchboard operators, a snooty wife and a doting mother. All this adds so much in the way of atmosphere and excitement that it could hardly be better if it rang true.

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