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...With a Load of Mischief," the American Theatre Society's present offering at the Plymouth Theatre, finds Jane Cowl rather desperately alone in an undeniably difficult play. "The Road to Rome" had set her completely at case; members of the audience went away believing that some of her lines had been spoken extemporaneously; and in Margaret Ayer Barnes' "Jenny," she had the excellent support of Sir Guy Standing. "The Man With a Load of Mischief," however, is neither facile, nor Miss Cowl's supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that...
...perhaps too difficult for a play that is to be acted rather than read. It gives the actors few opportunities for easily won applause. Despite the many curtain calls, the company now at the Plymouth cannot be said to have realized the possibilities of "The Man With a Load of Mischief" in anything like its entirety...
...year many a lease-saddled citizen has gone to his landlord, obtained a reduction. Others have anxiously awaited the lease's expiration, ready to haggle for a lower price or to move. Oct. 1, traditional moving day in a score of cities, will see many a van load of chattels rumbling through the streets...
...have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference men find this load increased by reading in which they may have little or no interest...
...collages can make enough money out of one sport to support an elaborate programme of athletics while at the same time protecting their students from the commercializing tendencies of the process. Horse racing is the answer. Once more let the noble animal lift from the shoulders of mankind a load which becomes year by year more difficult to carry...