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...gustibus non est disputandum. "At last a real comedy," writes F. E. P. '18 in the CRIMSON for Tuesday after a night at the Majestic with "His Majesty Bunker Bean." Follows then an eulogy--an all-inclusive eulogy as far as the members of the cast are concerned--of the whole production and ends with the wish that Bostonians will make many more trips to the Majestic while Bunker is there...
...sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says there is thorough sagacity shown in the arrangement of the dialogue. There would have...
...alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...
...last a real comedy! We wait for this sort of thing and go to what has been advertised as the real product, but too often disappointment is the result. No one therefore who lacks his share of 1916 fun-inspirers should miss "His Majesty Bunker Bean," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, for much more than an average success is realized in this brightest of productions. Cleverness is the keynote which is maintained until the final curtain...
Taylor Holmes, as Bunker himself, is supposedly the bearer of the stellar part. While not detracting from his marked ability, yet advertising Mr. Holmes as the single star is a deception--everyone in the cast is entitled to such distinction. Seldom has Boston seen a more charming ingenue than Florence Shirley, as the Flapper. She appeals without being saccharine, and is so attractively vivacious that it is no small wonder the movie magnates have not attempted to rob the "legitimate" of another "queen." And so on right down the program, Charles Abbs as Pops, Lillian Lawrence as Grandma, the demon...