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...doubt more for the purpose of saving time than as an experiment in a new form. Yet there is evident in "L'Avare", a probably unconscious moving to a form of comedy different from the classical; toward a more modern form which does not exclude pathos or even a bit of tragedy but mingles tears with laughter. In fact wherever, as in this play, the study of a character--even a character in a comedy--becomes profound, it tends to become drama...
Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...
After seeing What Every Woman Knows.± I am just a bit peeved at your little publication. Who says that What Every Woman Knows is a play worthy of first consideration ? To my mind it is not half as good as The Blonde Sinner which I saw against the advice of your theatre column and enjoyed immensely...
...cover displayed a reproduction of the marble "Greek Slave" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, which has the air at first glance of being a young woman clad only in police handcuffs. Aside from this bit of salesmanship by sex appeal, however, the contents of Your Body was almost humorously devoid of erotic motif. Ponderous, on cheap paper, its make-up was technically horrible...
...that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little to him and he had earned relaxation...