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...only unexpected point of the plot has been left out of the summary above, so you will have to go see the show for yourself to find it out. And if you do go, listen rather than look, for there is far more to hear than there...
...plot is simple and pleasant enough, dealing, as so many seem to do nowadays, with the bootlegging industry. Jimmie Winters arrives at his Long Island home with his latest bride, having taken her as his wife on the chance that a divorce had already been granted to free him from a former matrimonial bond. Needless to say, the divorce had not been granted, as he learns by telegram soon after his arrival at his summer home. His latest wife, now not a wife in the eyes of the law, tears off to get her father and the shotgun...
...normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
...House, Two years ago, Chairman Otto Kahn of the Opera Board, bought a plot on 57th Street, paid, it is said, $3,000,000 for it offered it to the Metropolitan for just what he paid. Last spring the site was seemingly approved: Architects Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban were appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John...