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...Tons of Money" is of the money-love-confusion- revelation drama variety, a type of play growing from the intrigues of the Restoration. The plot is somewhat originally handled; the jokes are on the shady side of forty, and beginning to show their age. Yet the play is funny, exceedingly so, and rather satisfactory, despite the acting of most of the cast. Admirers of Mr. Clive and his policy of stressing the farce will get theirs at "Tons of Money...
...plot is an adaptation from "A Pair of Sixes" and concerns two hard-boiled gents who are partners in the Eureka Garter Company. Garters mean models to show the garters off and models to show the garters off and models mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until...
...Orange Comedy" is based on an old Italian play which was in turn based on a familiar-Italian nursery tale or bedtime story. The present version has nearly as much consecutive plot as good Ziegfeld revue and is staged in much the same manner. The only difference is that "The Orange Comedy" is a little less logical than a revue and a little more satirical. It is, in fact, a satirical extravaganza, in which the extravagance is more visible and more important than the satire...
...Orange Comedy," is an adaptation of Gozzi's play, upon the satirical fairy story plot of which, Gilbert Seldes has imposed all manner of modernism's making it amusing parody of present-day life a sort of "Begger on Horseback" in an antique framework...
...three acts the audience and the authors worry themselves with the question, "Will Tommy get her?", and it takes the combined efforts of his rival Bernard, politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight...