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...comic accident stranded him in Washington in 1912. At first he thought it a very dead town indeed, but his discovery of the Government caused him to change his mind. There was opportunity there. The Government, he saw, had oceans of money to spend, and, being a Government, it was a good deal easier to take money away from it than from any sort of private business, if you were clever and tactful. He decided he must have his finger in that golden...
These are the plays, which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn...
...acting of Cyril Maude. The marital tragedy of a kindly, humorous and thoroughly ineffectual man, whose motives are constantly misunderstood by a shrewish wife. The best part of" the book is left out because of the alleged superior dramatic effectiveness of melodramatic incident, and the episodes featuring the comic servants High Jinks and Low Jinks are underplayed, but a sustained interest and suspense is maintained nevertheless. A competent caste helps to revive enthusiasm for the dramatic version of last year's literary sensation...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth pursues a drawing-room hero ideal and finds his mission in the movies strictly comic...
...nation, state and city, all put together. The financial and business pages are vastly more elaborate than political and governmental news. The theatres, and other so-called amusement interests, are also accorded more attention than the affairs of the country. Many newspapers give more space by far to comic pictures that introduce the same characters in unending series than they give to all the doings of all governments, foreign and domestic. This is not remarked by way of finding fault with the newspapers. It is intended rather to help the reader understand how it happens that public opinion, in relation...