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Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence...
Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...
...Loved the Ladies is the most horribly acted play in Manhattan. The plot: A maiden, born sub rosa, inherits the millions of her father. Fortunately for her social pretensions, he also leaves letters to prove he was the intermittent paramour of nearly every respected matron in town...
MICHAEL Arlen again, with his old characters in new names, dropped into a new book with the appropriate spring title "Young Men in Love"--that is all. It takes about a hundred pages of very, very polite conversation to get the plot tugged out of port and under way. Maxims are to be found at the beginning and end of each line, and one feels that Arlen is trying his hardest to impress us with his cleverness. I advise him to read some more Oscar Wilde and go back to Armenia...
...background and general atmosphere is again London. The main jumble of the plot starts before the war in Vardon's house at Liverpool. We are introduced to his ten year old daughter Venetia, to Peter Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book...