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...Clouds", a musical play in two acts, was tried out on Boston theatregoers last Monday night, and proved to be still another of the many pieces which have held forth upon the Wilbur stage this season. In plot, in music and in cast, however, the show may be distinguished from its predecessors: in the first, through a rather vaudevillian mingling of Capital and Labor concord, patriotic tableaux, and half-humorous idealism; in the second, through two or three tunes which actually survive the evening as such; and in the third, through a list of characters none of whom has ever...
...through the filming of a soul-stirring, star-spangled-bannered photoplay called "The Birth of America". It is fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity for the hero to fall in love with the heroine at first sight,, to love her through several acts and scenes...
...Punch for Judy" is an American comedy in three acts by Philip Barry, Yale '49, and a graduate student at the University 1919-20. The plot concerns a young lawyer in an up-state town of New York who, deserted by his fiancee, eventually wins her after first suing her for breach of promise. Miss Dorothy Sands, Radcliffe '12, will take the leading feminine role of "Judy", while J. W. D. Seymour will play the principal male part of "Jim Storey", the young lawyer...
...Lawyer Waddy's office when he succeeded in striking a match on the bald pate of the frightened attorney. There were of course, really clever lines, all too many of which escaped the observation of the Collegians and Cavanagh in the boxes; subtility was not expected. As for plot, what more is necessary than to say that the Donovan farm remained safe with the family and that Doris Cavanagh escaped the snares of the Calligans, to be united forever to Larry Donovan...
...plot of "A Punch for Judy" opens in a small up-state town of New York. Jim Storey, a flourishing young lawyer, returns after a prolonged stay from home to find that his fiancee, Judy, has shifted her affections to Bryce Valentine, a poet, who, like many others of his calling, wanders about with his head in the clouds. Jim is rather amused at this state of affairs at first, but later rebukes the faithless Judy for her fickleness. She, in a rash moment, dares here former sweetheart to prevent her marriage to Bryce...