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...customary features of musical shows-such as hordes of pretty, naked ladies and many sentimental songs-are not emphasized in The Grand Street Follies. Mayor Walker, however, without whom no amusement is complete, appears by proxy. There is no plot and the best that could be hunted up in the way of a hero was poor old Trader Horn whose senile and ridiculous maunderings in Manhattan form the framework for little pictures of less decrepit celebrities...
...That four members of the American team should conspire to a trick quite as dishonorable as tripping or knocking down a superior opponent, that they should go to the mark prepared to carry out their miserable plot, that, when at the last moment some shred and tatter of decency stopped them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme...
...complications of the cluttered plot were sometimes sufficient to halt the action of the play. Yet by virtue of its clear-eyed perception as well as its naivete, the play was convincing and funny. Moreover it was well acted, especially by Charles Eaton who played the mop-eared little brother to the heroine...
Using a rather old idea, that of two twins getting mixed up in a highly involved plot, the author has sustained the interest of the reader admirably through the greater part of the volume. This interest is one which is centered entirely on the unraveling of the mysterious situation into which the reader and the hero, Roderick Hazzard, are thrown together. Without the plot, the work would have no content whatever. All the characters are over idealized and show no real development or subtlety throughout the three hundred odd pages of rapidly moving action...
...South Wind" there was no plot to be sure, but there were many extremely interesting characters. There was something definite to tie yourself to. In Mr. Douglas' most recent work, there is no plot, and very, very little that is tangible...