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...must frequently have been tempted to burlesque the story rather than risk having audiences discover their own laughs in its sentimental climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm which is almost a satisfactory substitute for the emotional impact of its famed original...
...essentials, Dead End is simply Street Scene without a plot. But Mr. Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier Chapaprieta's Cabinet seemed doomed...
...Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, feeds him his gags. He gives much of the credit for his success to Harry Conn who writes his routines-impromptu vaudeville with the affectation of a plot. In cinema, Benny played a half dozen pictures before Broadway Melody of 1936 made him a star...
Even if "The Old Maid" is not the best play of the year it is certainly an highly absorbing production which is doubly effective because if avoids the pitfalls of melodrama inherent in the plot and grows subtly but directly into an intelligent drama, of human relations...