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LAZY LAUGHTER-Woodward Boyd -Scribner ($2.00). The Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago...
There are two solutions. The simplest is to shift the responsibility to the collective imagination of the audience. Drape the stage with silk curtains, put two chairs in front, twin beds in the rear, and page Mr. Avery Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...
...back, poot, who even at the beginning of the play is dangerously near the line which separates the genius from the insane, is not happy with his wife. But Her Philistines grates upon his sensitive soul; yet he is still strongly attracted by her in a physical way. But Dagmar, his wife, has come to the point where she can no longer endure her husband's whims and his scorn for worldly comforts. So she turns to Meyers Sophus, a prosperous, concerted; furniture dealer, and in him finds a welcome contrast to the vagaries of her talented husband. Peter, suspecting...
...Hale Points out, the play could be strengthened in many places. The audience might be made to understand a little sooner the feelings that influenced Dagmar to turn to the gross furniture dealer; they might be permitted perhaps to appreciate the character of the plot a little sooner. It is almost as if the author developed his conception of the characters as he wrote the play. The characterization is never inconsistent; the author does not contradict himself but he seems to be so afraid that he will that the characters remain unformed until well on in the story...
...following program: Chorale in A minor, Franck Prayer, Ropartz Professor Davison. "Come, Sweet Death," Bach Alleluja, Mozart Elsa Alves. Canon, Schumann Bourree, Handel Andante (Sixth Symphony), Widor Professor Davison. "For a Dream's Sake," A. W. Kramer Hindoo Slumber Song, Harriet Ware Japanese Death Song, Earl Cranston Sharp Pierott, Dagmar de Rubner Elsa Alves. Pastorale, Dubois Grand Choeur, Guilmant Professor Davison...