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...Russians go on forever. And for all that Manhattan cares, this particular Russian troupe can go on back to Leningrad and stay there. They delivered pale entertainment fashioned precisely on the lines of the Chauve Souris. A certain element of soothing saturnine melody they delivered, very little humor and no novelty...
...tips; that his visits to churches "commonly involved the Baedeker rather than the Prayerbook. . . . He distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...
...difficult one to make. That he has been successful is simply a proof of a determination to succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed it with several other books, among them, The Needle...
...blase," etc., etc., reveals that the critiques are native and quite harmless. Proof: advertisements of plays reviewed appear regularly side by side with these learned literary compositions--that's why they are native. But ah! the glory of success! I discovered one in this A. M.'s Crimlisten: "The humor of the play, which" play, the critic states "is continuous" a dramatic technicality "is simple (a common quality of naivete--simplicity): it is bound round (as Ridley and Latimer were bound round a stake) the novel and hotherto unused idea of mistaken identity." Is it to laugh. How could...
...always natural and at or case. Louis Leon Hall, as her father, was also very good. Bernard No tell as Chester Binney, emulated Grand Mitchell with fair success, although one always felt that he was constantly striving for effect. Perhaps the most glaring example of forced and unnatural humor was Ralph Remley, who took the part of James the butler in a ludicrous fashion. Although she had but a few lines, Miss Roberta Lee Clark as Sadie Bloom, gave a very delightful and clever, interpretation of "the girl of the taxicab." She did her bit as well as anyone...