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...these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign war. He borrows a seal from the prince's pretty mistress and sends a plea to King Frederick of Prussia. This just and apparently omnipotent ruler puts an end to the avaricious plot of His Serene Highness, the Prince, causing this character to have a spasm of rage. Piderit and his brothers fare, for peaceful reasons, to the wide, delicious and enduring freedom...
...musical comedy which harks back to the 1860's, and passes two acts flowing about in crinolines. The plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...
There should be reasons why this is in spots the worst, and in others, one of the best plays come to Boston in some time. In the first place Mr. Kelly has caught an idea which has great dramatic possibilities. Though his plot may be totally unreal, it is possible, and in the main he is tenaciously faithful to it. The trouble is that he is no more able to handle a subject with the tragedic poetntialities belonging to this one, than is the present cast capable of creating the necessary stage illusion. It is case of a large, undigested...
...Great Necker. A citizen of Manhattan, wearing a $35 suit of "tweed" clothing, bought tickets to The Great Necker. He noted with pleasure that it was "a new comedy of modern life." For him, this statement was not contradicted as its ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When...
...simple plot; but within it are the jungle blues, the swaying bodies, the early-morning smells of Harlem-tied together by an urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...