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...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"-The familiar Punchinello plot made shiny and new by the skillful Belasco-Barrymore (Lionel) touch...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"-A study in the sex relations, pure and profane, proving the latter are more successful...
...chop suey restaurants,--on the other the sinister tong leader, a religious fanatic and altogether a dangerous man to trifle with. His make-up is inescapably ridiculous, but it should merely emphasize his deadly real nature. Dr. Darney however falls into the spirit of his clothes, and becomes a clown entirely, instead of only on the surface. There can be no doubt that this makes the performance lighter and even more amusing than it might otherwise be, but it inevitably robs if of its natural drama and occasional tenseness...
...scenes and heightens them all--a performance ably abetted by Burrell's lesser role. The Club will lose a great deal when these two cease to act in its plays. But it has made a "find" in Sanchez. "Excellent" is the only word to describe his playing of the clown; for he has both animation and, what is far more rare, a humorous restraint that leaves the spectator watching with keen anticipation for his entrances. Miss Googins has the most stilted role with which I have ever seen her burdened; but I was not surprised to find that she always...
Simonetta is the specific for them both. In the second act she succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...