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...plot there is so little that the play might readily have been run as a musical comedy, with infinite gain in speed and box-office receipts. Lie follows lie in the most amazing succession, so that even the most-cynical of males would be sated, and turn trustingly to his companion. "No woman could lie like that." Yet, despite the never ending procession of lies the play palls during the second act, palls indeed until The-Shot-Outside. No audience can resist The-Shot-Outside...
...into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors entering the Freshman class of night school...
...Boots (Eddie Cantor). In Eddie Cantor's defection, the stage loses more than the cinema gains, the difference being written on the deposit side of Mr. Cantor's check book in round numbers. As for the picture itself, the plot concerns a certain Kid Boots who is invited to tarry awhile in the country club environs because he chanced on a scene bearing upon an important divorce case. Questions...
Stark Young is only 45, so that only by hearsay could he have known these relatives of his at "Heaven Trees" before the Civil War. But his keen understanding and prodigious talent for transcribing subtle values have made of them, with no particular plot or thesis, as wholly real and charming a group of personalities as you are likely to meet in many a year...
...handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds are lost in the general mawkishness. Moreover, the thin material of the plot is stretched almost to the breaking-point. And indeed, who are we to say it did not snap altogether somewhere along in the second act." Certainly something was wrong there...