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...With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin from her extravagance and his land debauched from overlove, overambition. The farm was sold under his feet. His boy died. But in his hour of despair, his unwanted wife stepped back into...
...having found that his female impersonation in "Charlie's Aunt" was good for a new swimming pool, has kept right at it here and turns himself into a serving maid, as well as a butler, a cabby, and an ordinary idiot. At times he is very, very funny. For particular commendation is his interpretation of the name Goldfish, done by signs and aerobatics...
...Soloman Tinker's Christmas Eve", by Mr. Walter D. Edmonds Jr., beguiles us by promising two highwaymen, a bar maid, and a bar, old style. To be sure the story begins with one Judd, a coal barge owner, but nothing comes of that since we hear nothing of coal barges and little of Judd. After we get into the story we find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman...
...Sorrowing Maid" reminds us that A. E. Housman's "Shropshire Lad" is among the great poets...
Though the scene is said to be on Madison Avenue, the audience wasn't fooled for one moment. They knew it was Mount Vernon Street. And everything contributed to their convictions. Even the maid spoke Bostonese. But, of course, the fact that the accents were not convincing, would be quite pardonable if the play had been...