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...Gene Hughes does an exceptionally fine bit of acting in Edgar Allan Woolf's little play--"When He Came Back." There is some delicious comedy in this act and subtle pathos. The support accorded Mrs. Hughes by Benton Ressler and his company is notable. Claudia Coleman got an ovation at the end of her impersonations of such feminine types as are to be met with in the average women's club and those which are to be found at times in a hotel lobby or behind a music store counter. With the aid of a few hats and an exceptionally...
...which includes considerable horse-play, is not entirely lacking in clever lines, although they are rather few and far between. The scorn of the chorus girl for the impecunious First National Bank which didn't have $35 to pay a check, returning it marked "No Funds," was a fine bit of sarcasm. Except for occasional flashes like this the action was inclined to drag...
...Keyser's "Ride Them Hosses" is a bit of sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...candidates. If any of their personal friends are on the ticket, they go to the polls to vote. But what difference does it make to them whether Smith or Jones is elected, when they know neither of them? It shows that a student has at least a small bit of intelligence left if he won't vote unless he knows what he is voting...
...Boston audience to witness such a graceful exhibition as that givenly Miss Francesca Braggiotti in her "Spirit of the Nile" dance, and again, accompanied by her sister, in the tango in the second act. The "Waitress Dance," beautifully done by a chorus of ten, is the best bit of group dancing in the play. Then there is a performance by an "Octette" which makes the "Flonaltra" Sextet look miserable in comparison. Mention must also be made of the "Golliwog Dance," in which Miss Rosann Flike and Miss Lucy Ricketson star...