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Then everybody goes back to his House and has fresh hamburg steak for dinner. It is all a plot of the University to provide the Housemen with tender meat
...idea of his own strength. Furthermore, the dialogue is lean and vivid, and the supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their dream of the life they will never...
...White Steed (by Paul Vincent Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling) is, thematically, much the same play as Carroll's Shadow and Substance. But it is a better play. Shadow and Substance leaned too heavily on portraiture; The White Steed also has plot. Shadow and Substance was enveloped in a cloud of mysticism; The White Steed shows the warm flesh of humanity. Shadow and Substance had too literary a finish; The White Steed is often combustibly dramatic...
...Importance of Being Earnest, talked up in academic circles as the best farce in the English language, everywhere fails to treat its Gilbertian plot with Gilbertian high spirits. As artificial as the Yellowed Nineties which gave it birth, it has the pasty look and studied jauntiness of an elderly fop. The steady ticktock of its epigrams is broken only when one of them happens to chime. As Wilde said of the youthful Max Beerbohm, the gods have endowed the play's elegant, orchidaceous young men with the gift of perpetual...
...currently offering several morsels well worth the seeing. Locally, Shirley, Temple turns in a creditable performance which should boost her stock in undergraduate eyes. Although this department can see no relevance whatever in the title, "Just Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...