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Professor Copeland, after a great deal of urging, has very kindly consented that his last reading of the year on Wednesday, March 26, shall be in the Living Room of the Union instead of in the Dining Room. The subject, as he has announced it, is "Irish Wit, Humor, and Pathos--in English and the Brogue...
...Hall by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, offers an unusual opportunity for seeing one of the funniest of Elizabethan comedies presented under conditions which practically assure its success. Elaborate costumes, competent stage direction, well selected music, more than ordinary amateur histrionic talent, together with Shakespeare's most uproarious humor, are considerations which render it most probable that this production will come up to the high standard of Delta Upsilon performances...
Like the great majority of present-day farces, "Believe Me, Xantippe!" depends very largely for its humor on its melodramatic touches. To have been told ten years ago that melodrama was on the way to becoming ludicrous would have been sacrilege; yet in this day of self-styled musical comedy the "blood and thunder" is quite the funniest thing we have on our stage--except of course in the "movies" where, fortunately for us, the sinning and the sinned-against are polite enough to allow themselves to be seen but never heard. It is perhaps this speaking out in meeting...
...success of "The End of the Bridge" and "The Product of the Mill." It is a strongly effective and original comedy from the pen of John Frederick Ballard, and it touches American life and manners with a light and sure hand. It never oversteps the bounds of legitimate humor, and its dramatic moments are on a high and perfectly rational plan. All its happenings are possible, and the dialogue is lifelike and brilliant...
...action needs quickening in a few places and the dialogue, compression; on the whole both would be creditable work at the hands of a playwright of long experience. There is, throughout, the "Biggers touch" which we have come to know in many delightful stories, deft character drawing, a humor that is original, refreshingly American...