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...went to no one man, maid, wife or widow but to the students, professors and employes of the Académic des Beaux Arts of Madrid who had clubbed together to purchase one of the 60,000 lottery tickets...
...Girls Wanted-"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever...
...sidestepped; Lancelot, who fought and loved nobly but then fell; Galahad who rode away in righteousness-the last was her masterpiece. Lancelot finished his days in a monastery, more bluntly honest than ever and utterly perplexed by the last tra-edy his honesty precipitated, the suicide of the "lily maid" of Astolat, the second Elaine, whose proposal, made in tenderest neurotic innocence, so astonishingly echoed her unhappy namesake...
...perennial charm and a good voice. She was called back four or five times for the song in which she hinted that she was a lady. Polly and Dick, the office-hands, were nice youngsters who insisted on missing the last note of every song. Coddles, the coo-coo maid stumbled around in mad gyrations and burlesque ballets until Ye Wilbur threatened to collapse on its foundations. The rest of the cast and the chorus were mediocre and badly dressed with all the old dance steps and shake-your-finger-at-the-audience tricks that have ever been seen. There...
...Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near the end, the sister's meretricious snooping is smartly smacked down; marriage negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single...