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...scenery and costumes for the show arrived last night and the first dress rehearsal, at which pictures of the entire cast will be taken, is to be held Sunday afternoon. Although the plot has not yet been divulged, a general idea of the show can be gleaned from the reports which have come...
...authors of the plot and dialogue, although they refuse to make any definite revolutions about the product of their labor, intimate the scope of the show in their acknowledgement of indebtedness to "Ba num the Bible, and Professor Albert Pushrell Hart in the order named...
...Daughter are going to be faintly disappointed by Sir Harry's new opus. He has been careless and a mite dull. His people are a rich Australian who marries the Governor's daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their napkins and blew their noses"-and the third consists largely in sudden aimless excursions into geology, botany, anthropology, astronomy...
Nearly every episode in the action is based on an actual happening. The plot focuses upon the experiences of a group of the American soldiers of essentially different types, thrown together by the haphazard fortune of war, in a French farmhouse, where they are temporarily isolated from their company as the result of a German counter attack...
...easy play to present, but it must be a play which gives the Repertory company infinite pleasure after the banalities of Minick. What Minick lost, however, by enunciating a familiar problem in too bald and veracious a manner, the Circle loses by parading in a false and scaffolded plot a problem which has its roots in bigotry. The first act of the latter suffers immeasurably in consequence. From start to finish of the act there is talky-talk of the most stagey, witless sort, written to unfold the background of the play...