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Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...
...remainder of the show is spread with a prodigal profusion that only Florenz Ziegfeld can maintain. There are numerous minor luminaries of musical comedy in the cast, an unobtrusive plot, a succession of amiable melodies. In fact the only objection that can be raised against the show is the practical impossibility of obtaining tickets...
...plot tangles two adjacent families in domestic turmoil because the prize rooster of the one feeds furtively upon the prize onions of the other. A capable cast fumbles hopelessly with the awkward assignment of material...
...herein unfolded. The author is a Spaniard, Rafael Marti Orbera. Those whose preconceptions of Spain are inextricably confused with the crackle of castanets and the present vogue in Spanish shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite the presence of the more or less heralded Nance O'Neil...
...preparing the play for the opera stage, Giordano was obliged to delete parts of the libretto. The motif appears in the first act and is elaborated into an octette in the third act when Gianetto's plot is perfected. In this way a passage which occupied 15 minutes in the drama is reduced to four minutes in the opera, because all the characters speak at once. The result must be striking if not effective. As yet no one is said to have heard the music except Giordano's wife. But the combined popularity of La Cena della Beffe...