Word: copley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April 19--"Andrew Takes a Wife," it the Copley. William Cotton's comedy for the first time anywhere...
When Basil Dean suggested that the theatre in England was in a less vigorous position than the American he had probably seen "The Young Person in Pink", For Gertrude Jennings' play, now in its first week at the Copley, is certainly insipid, if not devitalizingly vapid. Three acts of gentle farce, it rests its right to existence on a pink dress, a skit in the best Hyde Park cockney, and--at least in America--on Alan Mowbray's smile. To say, "The smile's the play," is not to vaporize. It is the truth. And all the more surprising...
...Young Person in Pink" is not the most delightful device the Copley players have used to assist them in their two hour strut upon the stage of local stock. It is as obvious that they have too little here with which to work as it was that they had too much in "Outward Bound". The policy of producing plays hitherto unproduced in America is excellent when the plays are good. But as the Harvard Dramatic Club has proved, they are sometimes far from good. "The Young Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best...
...Copley--"The Young Person in Pink", at 8.30. Reviewed in this issue...
Boston is a city in the northeastern part of the United States, the population of which is composed solely of those who live in the past and those who exist in the present. The one class reads the Transcript, goes to the Copley and thinks the "Mayflower" is still the ship of state. The other reads the tabloids, goes to the moving pictures and never thinks. So there is no particularly cogent reason why any real spirit of freedom, either of thought or action, should become an integral part of the Boston cosmos...