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...union of a vapid play and a cast that, with one marked exception, runs the entire gamut from indifferent to very bad is an unfortunate one. If "Boyd's Shop," the Copley's first play this season, lasted only two nights on Broadway, "Return Engagement" had better prepare to go to bed right here in Beantown...
...little short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace Mills, all fit their parts...
Probably the greatest weakness of "Boyd's Shop" is its lack of excitement and pace. It is a dreamy play, built on the serenity of Ulster life, particularly the life of three years back when the bottom had not fallen out of Europe. And Ervine has to make up for this deficiency by characterizations which are skilfully executed, and problems which have far more universality than the limits of Donaghreagh...
...play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...
...most refreshing part of "Boyd's Shop" is the air of clean good cheer about it all. The comedy is graceful, not uproarious. The informality of the production was typified by Hiram Sherman, who entertained the audience between acts to prevent impatience over the scene changes, As No. 1 on th list of six Copley productions, "Boyd's Shop" may well be the best. But even though it proves a financial success, it will only stay for two weeks, to make way for Bert Lytell and Mady Christians in "Return Engagement." Boston has at last become a producing center. From...