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...best part of the production is the second act. Here is the high point in setting, plot, and acting. We know that something is going to happen and that "Sniffler Evans", Woodruff's double, is to take a major role--just how we can only guess. The murderer's plan, well-concealed from the audience, is not fully revealed until the last moment. Then the ingenuity and awfulness of his nature as already expressed in his utterances stand out in the actual deed...
...nobleness the conclusion is a surprise which detracts rather than adds. Be- fore the start of the third act many in the audience have unfortunately already divined the manner in which the criminal is finally to be apprehended. This owing partly to a lack of subtlety in the plot and partly to a tell-tale picture which the management displays among others at the entrance of the theatre...
...country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave hero, dragged painfully into the scenes. The plot, though simple and unimportant, is made interesting by the capable acting of the cast...
...Significance. With this aggressively commonplace plot and in a style painstakingly simple, Mr. Anderson attempts the well-nigh impossible. His object is to show, through John Webster's experience, the mystery and miracle of the commonplace seen with the vision of inspiration. John Webster's love gives the world new aspects. The fronts of houses seem to have fallen away, and he can see the lives of the people in them. Every episode, every object, takes on for him a fresh beauty. He tries to give some of this sudden light to his wife and daughter...
MYSTERY AT GENEVA-Rose Macauley-Boni. Twenty years from now the League of Nations assembles, at Geneva. A plot for kidnapping the delegates one by one is conceived by a group of assorted super-criminals. The reason for their dislike of the League is obscure, in as much as it is depicted as a majestically futile assemblage. The story brandishes first the dagger of mystery and then the scalpel of satire. Both are equally keen, and the result is a complete conquest of the reader...