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...introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent character material. Here also the plot makes its appearance--a rather ordinary, but well-executed comedy plot which develops out of Beem's meddling attempts to help Gilly "git shet of the old woman" and indulge his senile passion for Goldy...
...must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play was all about...
...This is a real play. It has a fine plot and many unique situations and opportunities for specialties. I could take the book as it now stands, engage professional actors, and make as big a hit in New York as any show of its kind now playing there." So said Coach Louis Silvers last night, in speaking of this year's Hasty Pudding Club, production. The Hasty Pudding club, in his opinion, has had for years no such admirable plot as is in this play...
Coach Silvers admits that it will not be easy to secure acting that can in every way meet the exigencies of such a plot but 50 men reported last night and the work of dividing them into separate sets is already well under...
...fiction is a bit difficult to categorize. Its entire freedom from the plot-and-story complex will puzzle a few, but its artistic handling will please more. Mr. Smart, for example, writes merely a series of biographical anecdotes and analyses which he labels a "Pilgrimage"; but his rich and nicely turned style leaves the reader with no desire for dramatic ingenuity. It seems to me that Mr. Smart might some time try his hand at actual rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace...