Word: comically
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...Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
...Shakespeare for the scenery and the ballet." Yet most people left the house filled with a sense of all imaginable marvels. The evening is like nothing in our current theatre. It borrows from the dance, the scene designer, the musician, the actor, the blabbering low comic and the story teller. With rare, almost incredible, genius of synthesis these elements are blended in delicate pageantry. Herr Reinhardt bewitches the emotions with every charm that can be worked within a walled building where a stage is set. There are flaws, but they are drowned in beauty...
...such a time, and that only about 30 years ago. The pathetic tale of the lonely student who heard other students being called by friends, but was never called himself until he went out under his own window and shouted his own name, is a story based on tragi-comic fact. The story spread quickly; its pathetic aspects were soon forgotten, its humor remembered; finally its very origin became somewhat obscure. Many are the vociferous young men who make hideous the soft spring evenings without knowing why they do so, without realizing why the syllables of "Rinehart" should be echoing...
...York Times: "Composed of the same eminently saleable materials that have made Abie's Irish Rose, mammy songs, Mary Pickford and the comic strips such inexhaustible institutions of our national life." Romancing 'Round. "Fun in the Navy" might be an appropriate subtitle for this selection. It is set on the Brooklyn water front; and a young woman is enamored of one of the sailors. She has a former lover and an irascible father of impeccable lineage. These splatter the stage with farce and melodrama to a happy, if firmly foregone, conclusion. Helen McKellar, called to the part...
Each of the company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies...