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Partners Again. Potash and Perlmutter, old friends, herewith entertain again and in the main uproariously. George Sidney and Alexander Carr are the actors. The plot tells how the partners went into the movies...
...typical Broadway musical shows upon which Hasty Pudding productions of recent years have been modelled. George Leighton '26 and W. L. White '24, have combined in writing the book for the show. As the name indicates, the story of the production will deal with early Revolutionary days. The plot and scenery will be colonial, centering about Cambridge in the early days of the Revolution...
...cast by any means weak. Mr. Hodge has delved into the legal archives of Connecticut and extracted a law which permits a judge to act as witness in his own case, provided both parties agree to allow him. Starting with this comparatively simple point, Hodge complicates the plot by making the judge a woman, the plamtiff the husband of that woman, and the attorney the other man in the divorce case. In other words Mr. Hodge has superimposed his eternal triangle on a compound legal structure that leaves the audience totally bewildered...
...think of and here and there a new one. It is so synthetic, so obviously manufactured for the easy laugh, that the testy old critics did not like it. Neither did they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl he loved and the girl's mother, who did not think they were old enough to get married. Maude Eburne, the low comedy maid, is the funniest...
...critic always be blamed for his shrewishness. Even though one grant him a disposition superior to chronic mud slinging, his provocation is immense. Before rattling off the presses, most novels have endured compression to standard dimensions of theme and plot. More than human patience would be required for the reviewer to pick out minor originalities from this stereotyped mass. After all, acidity is the best antidote for dullness...