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...heroine's feelings are almost as difficult to follow as Mr. Eyre's labyrinthine plot. But you must remember that you are observing specimens of the loftiest social strata who may be expected to have the most delicate and complex sensibilities. Even the butler is a deposed Russian striving to stifle his sense of nobility as well as his love for the heroine. And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as. "Adenoids are meant to be heard, not seen...
...spite of an ever so slight sententiousness, "Capansacchi" as played by Walter Hampden last night was a thoroughly excellent drama played with intelligence. Browning's "The Ring and the Book" which formed the plot for the production is materially preserved although considerably condensed. The essential idea of truth and the characteristic "live to make the world better" are still the motivating influences of the drama, but the discussion is confined to Canon Caponsacchi and his view of the case...
...swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon the actors. During most of the three hours, the drama flowed forward quickly; here, the little complications of plot caused greater haste, there the "merry war of words" between Benedick and Beatrice retarded the play to a slower but more sparkling course. The drama was little altered from the "book version", but in the sure grasp of these players it did not suffer through the lack of extensive alterations...
...fact, of Warner Baxter, who plays the role in both guises. Elinor Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which, in spite of its puerile aspects, has possibilities as entertainment. What makes Suck Men Are Dangerous silly is not the plot, acting or direction, but the awful dialog, written by Ernest Vajda. Specimen lines...
Tests are now being made-of the soil in the plot at the corner of Mill and Plympton Streets in preparation for the building of House Unit No. 4. The consistency of the material must be known in order to prepare for laying the foundation...