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...Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her. He even goes to her house, bringing sophistry to bear on her brainy husband. In defeat, like Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he is victorious...
...names to Louder, Please. It is a good imitation of the sort of thing that blasted audiences out of their seats several seasons back when Lee Tracy, he of the sunken cheeks, long legs and yellow hair, was romping through Broadway and The Front Page. Happily the services of Actor Tracy have been secured for Louder, Please, a lively dig-in-the-ribs for cinema pressagentry and public relations counseling in general...
...play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after the Manhattan premiere. Said he to his Press: "The part I play doesn't need acting. The character has absolutely no emotions. Anyone with a good speaking voice could walk through it. In fact I'll venture to state...
...amiable secretary gets back from the ladies' room in time, saves her employer from suicide. Also in the nick of time a millionaire's son kills Mrs. Simon, the erring wife. Lawyer Simon gets renewed faith in life and no little budding interest in his faithful secretary. Actor Muni turns in an extraordinary characterization. More than 20 mummers do their best. But Counsellor-at-Law remains prolix, unsifted, the work of a painstaking realist who refuses to trade significance for well-observed irrelevancies...
...thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...