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...plot discusses the actions and reactions of a district attorney's wife who has denied herself amatory intrigue in deference to her husband's career and reputation. He is promptly disclosed on the brink of official malpractice. Some three acts of philosophy, maundering and epigram are required to open this rift in their domestic lute and close it happily...
...Grace George and Laura Hope Crews. The scenes between them are studies in the impalpable artistry of personality. The cast of their compatriots is evenly competent, distinguished in the playing of Mary Ellis and Arthur Sinclair. Aside from some disturbing descents into melodrama and the rather obvious machinery of plot, the play is a decided addition to the display spread for the metropolitan multitude...
...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
With the completion, yesterday, of the second act, the Hasty Pudding Show is on its way to Coach Louis Silvers for final revision. Mr. Silvers has been so impressed by the novelty of the plot and its many original features that he has decided to have the play copyrighted...
Several new features will be incorporated in the new structure, such as apartments and recreational rooms for tenants on the upper floors, halls for conventions, a new automatic control elevator system. The unusual size of the plot has permitted the planning of large single room areas, which are expected to prove desirable to many lines of business...