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...Criminal Code. Martin Flavin is both lawyer and playwright. (Children of the Moon). Perhaps by intention he has shaped his new drama in 13 scenes, for it is the tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal...
...door. Hugh Wakefield cleverly stutters, gasps, grimaces, after the established manner of approved farce-comedy spouses. Pretty Marion Coakley contributes a vivid piece of work as the unextinguished Hollywood flame in Room 1912. All this is something of a disappointment to theatregoers who remember a previous play of Martin Flavin's, Children Of The Moon. Yet it is as good as the average farce, and cleverly executed from the box-office point of view...
Lady of the Rose. When Martin Flavin wrote Children of the Moon, two seasons ago, he received mention as another dramatist of promising consequence. From time to time rumors of further works from his pen were in the air, but Lady of the Rose is the first to actually materialize. It is a rude disappointment. Lady of the Rose suffers from bad writing and is in an agony of inefficient acting...
...Flavin's reach exceeded his grasp so far that the lines seemed at times only to mock his genuine imaginative creation. Occasionally, he lapsed into blank verse. Lapsed is the word. Or possibly it was the terrible playing...
...that Mr. Flavin has had an artistic success and a flat failure, he is ripe to do something rather fine and durable...