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Miss Brady is too fine an emotional actress to spread her comic talent over a whole evening as she does in Oh! Mama! She has to try to be funny...
...flirting with a second and in love with a third. The fact that the third is the son of the first by an earlier marriage accounts for the title ? if anything can account for so fearful a title. Why they did not rest in the Parisian name, Mile. Mama, is not known. Edwin Nicander and Kenneth MacKenna assist competently. The net result is a fair farce, fairly well done...
Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...
...your rovin' red-hot mama...
Several Harvard prize plays of the past have met with notable success on the professional stage. Among these were "Believe Me, Xantippe," by Frederick Ballard G '12, "Common Clay," by Cleves Kincard, "Mama's Affair," by the late Rachel Barton Butler, and "You and I," by Philip Barry G '22, which ran in New York for six months...