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...Some ten months ago, this entertainment was unveiled in Greenwich Village under the title of The Leap. Recast and rewritten, it is now uptown. The opening audience could not determine why. On the whole, it seemed one of the most aimless and inept productions of the year. The plot tells of a man who involved himself with a daughter when he thought he was addressing her mother...
...action takes place at the present time at the country Chateau de Longueval and in the house of the neighboring priest. The plot is woych around the love affair between the priest's godson, Jean Reynaud, a young French officer, and Miss Bettina Percival, an American whose sister has bought the Chateau...
...Bother Mother. Rather a good title, this. Rather a good cast, too, was assembled. Decidedly a terrible show, the audience thought. In plot, it was one of those domestic comedies. The appearance was for special matinees. The idea was to establish it in an evening theatre if it made...
...knows. It will repay inspection. The Great Divide, you will recall, was one of the first men-are-men dramas and created exceptional excitement in its day under the interpretative treatment of Henry Miller. Currently, it only goes to prove that the world does move and that almost any plot can be boiled to the bone in the cinema. There is a desert, a strong husband, a capturing villain and a subtitle that reads: "You bought me with a handful of nuggets, and then you drove me before you across the desert like a beast." This from the play...
Among other things, the meeting will take up a discussion of the plot of the show. "Laugh It Off", written by J. C. Murphy '25 and W. S. Martin '26, is a two-act musical comedy. The first act, the scene of which is laid in a deserted country house at Beverly Farms, is a thriller guaranteed to come up to the standards of Broadway's finest productions. The second act features a costume ball at a nearby country club, thus affording ample opportunity for the display of the dramatic genius of Mr. Silvers and his charges...