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...dialogue is effectively simple. There is little originality, and such familiar episodes as the avowal by the lovers that fate has meant them for each other, appear in this play. But they are handled, by playwrights and players, with a vitalizing skill. Neither is there much outright humor. The comic relief consists mainly in the mundane or drunken suties of Mr. Killiam and the unaccountable tricks of the man who works the lights. Thus all contributes to the winningly unpretentious impression that "The Wind and the Rain" imparts...
...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...
When the Ford Peace Ship sailed to end that orgy of destruction through a Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, the "international anarchists" (to improvise on a phrase from G. Lowes Dickinson) presented the peace pilgrimage as the great comic interlude of their four years' spectacle. Militarism had won. The Ford Expedition will serve future generations as a study in magnificent failure...
...husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted his murder. Other parts of the opera move along leisurely, seem dated and old-fashioned compared with the Beethoven symphonies. A prisoners' chorus is stirring, compassionately descriptive of their pitiful existence. But there are flaccid comic opera bits unworthy of the composer's genius...
...another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken...