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...Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
...these are the only kind which attract him. To play in his two ultrasocialite comedies, Paris Bound and Holiday, was chosen the Barrys' friend Hope Williams, a smart young woman who had never set foot on the professional boards before. And his good friend Donald Ogden Stewart acted the funniest role Playwright Barry has created to date: Nick, the easy-going gentleman in Holiday who extemporized on the invention of the bottle...
...Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this season in Lean Harvest...
...Springtime for Henry Actor Bruce is at his funniest as a husband protesting his wife's jilting by his best friend. Theatregoers could be grateful that a slip-up by Actors' Equity permitted Actor Bruce to remain on the U. S. stage, in spite of the six months' interval between engagements required of alien actors...
...exciting fun. To the revelers it is an opportunity to repeat all the nice things Rudyard Kipling has been saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...