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...called upon to exercise their histrionic powers to the full this week, for "Judy Drops In", the current offering of the Boston Stock Company, is one of the most trivial pieces that has been put before the theatre-going public this season. Although the play is weak in plot and no more than average in dialogue, the sympathetic acting of the St. James cast makes the result genuinely amusing rather than distinctly mediocre...
...through frozen streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though by what agency the plot was cast for his overthrow is as obscure as the bomb was efficient...
WHITE CARGO?Going farther than usual in point of plot by mixing the white and the black in its discussion of disintegrated character in extremely foreign lands...
...appetite for self-advertising, preferably of an unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure hamlet of two and one half million souls must certainly exist. The Chamber of Commerce is out to frustrate that conspiracy...
...talent would be needed that it is doubtful if such a thing will be attempted. The result will rest largely with the Committee who will select the winning play. If the best play submitted is a revue, a revue will be given, if not, a play with an intricate plot, including many skits and lyrics, will be acted...