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...Dear Old Darling" is the perfect medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...
Representing the actor's point of view, Brandon Tynan soundly asserted that the theatre "was not essentially to blame for the life it portrays." Since the drama "expresses the life of the nation .... it is ineffectual to throw stones at the mirror." He justly called Boston's censorship system "condemnation without representation", for, at present theatres may have their licenses revoked as well as their plays banned without even the pretense of a hearing. It is remarkable that such undemocratic treatment should have continued almost undisputed for twenty-one years...
...dispute his own. Fortunately his talk is never too brilliant to lose its smack of complete spontaneity, and it is a revelation to see the wealth of aptness and humor that he can put into a stock rejoinder like "You'd be surprised." Mr. Cohan is not a versatile actor; his own identity is too strong for that. But in the part of the mundane business man who quails and blusters; who loses face, his head, and his temper, but remains lovable and richly human throughout, George Cohan is a lasting delight...
Since this work offered no opportunities for the teacher, artist, musician, actor, or writer, a Service Division was established which enables these people to put their specialized training to use in rendering effective service...
...Hollywood tycoons come to grips over the possession of a boy-actor; the one with the more childish psychology wins...