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...Hero for a Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in Russia. This funny & heroic feat enables the taxicab driver to marry the millionaire's daughter...
...Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This is perhaps because she was born in Atlanta and has herself strayed Northward...
Nowadays "racket" plays are pasted up by newspaper folk from clippings of their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably...
There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...White Eagle is a musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings...