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Playwrights are eternally tickle in their geographic affections. A few years ago India was in high favor as the romantic setting par excellence, more recently it has been Spain, and now we find Leon Gordon, who you will remember wrote "White Cargo" and Sir Patrick Hastings conspiring to popularize the dreadful woes of life in Africa. Sir Patrick has dubbed his "comedy" "The River. The river in question happens to be the Mungana, and is, of course, located somewhere in the bejungled interior of that very dark continent, on one is quite sure where. Hence we have a mystery...
...melodramatic vehicles of disillusioned love and hasty murder, without availing himself of the full dramatic value docruing from an African atmosphere. It is because of this that, while it may possibly attract large audience to the Copley for several weeks to come, it cannot hope to rival "White Cargo" in effective and thought provoking morbidness...
...national life these last few years that it is only natural it should appear upon the stage. In this play the rumrunner is made a hero, a rough diamond rattling around in the greasy pocket of fate. He wins a lovely lady and confounds the competitors for his cargo, and there is much sea salt in evidence everywhere. One scene, with the schooner swaying in the swells, is amazingly accurate. Of the accuracy of the rest one may have doubts. Romance is seldom accurate. That is why people like to see it on the stage. Life turns the edges...
...Shipping Board last week sold the four ships of the Pan-America Line. The Pan-America, Southern Cross, Western World and American Legion, combination cargo and passenger ships of the "President" type, have plied between the Atlantic Coast and South America. They were operated for the Government under contract by the Munson Line and constituted one of the major services still operated for the Government. The last big sale of a going line was that of the California-Orient Line to the Dollars (TIME...
...WHITE CARGO-Highly thermal happenings in Africa when a white man wilts, morally, in the lonely heat and goes native. THE GREEN HAT-Michael Arlen's ingenious artificialities recaptured in a play chiefly important for the performance of Katharine Cornell...