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...Lady Screams. Not even two blistering screams furnished by the heroine were enough to wake up the gasping plot or the exhausted audience as this play wandered through an unhappy two and a half hours. Stolen pearls, a onetime manicurist protegee were the chief concerns of the Yale dramatic student author...
...plot is neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...
...sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There is his constant desire for the confirmation of reality: "He doubted his eyes, and had to feel things with his hands...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...