Word: mawkishness
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...their way is one of pleasantness and their pathway, thank heaven, is diametrically opposed to the current flourishing, mawkish school of the Be-Beautiful-And-Be-Damned sort of pen-wielders
...which this week's is not. As it is, this eleven playlet after the better Hopwood manner (you know where the scene is laid) is worth a hundred "Getting Gertie's Garters" and "Demi-Virgins", and shows what vaudeville can be when it tries to break the spell the mawkish hack writers. Mr. Mason has all the "fat" lines, and he is on the crest of the wave all the time. The rafters were loosened and the audience was left hungry for more...