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Twinkle, Twinkle makes the evening both musical and comic. A cinema actress seeking escape from an annoying, unbusinesslike producer, visits her graceful dancing and tinkling song upon Pleasantville, Kan., where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here...
...find its way onto the Brattle Hall boards, with "The Orange Comedy", an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, a contemporary of Goldini's. Gozzi wove around the stock characters of early slapstick comedy a story from the Arabian Nights, welding together the comic and the romantic elements. The result is something unique on the modern stage, and the particular piece which the Dramatic club has chosen has never been played in America...
...Loves Us. Joseph P. McEvoy, author of Americana, The Potters, comic supplements, slashes bitterly at the huge industrial juggernaut that rolls flat the spirit of Hector Maclnerny Midge, average U. S. citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale...
Traditions--and the comic strips--make the mother-in-law the source of most quarrels. Thus the position of England in regard to Canada and the United States. The latter two countries have, without a doubt, given a shining example of good neighborliness to the world. Border relations have been remarkably free from petty bickerings; Canadians and the citizens of this country have been tactfully respectful of each others wishes. Therefore when a guest comes into one country--as Lord Darling, noted English justice, came into Canada and makes allusions not quite flattering to the other, he raises no antipathy...
...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...