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...nothing antiquated about "Dolly Reforming Herself", nothing either in technique or in point of view that one would wish treated differently by a more modern playwright. It is the most genuinely amusing comedy that Henry Arthur Jones ever wrote, and he has had few superiors in that vein. The plot is trifling, the situation almost threadbare; yet there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock device...
...tremendously handicapped by the disturbed condition of the public mind which has followed the war. The present theatre-going public wants emotional thrill of some kind. If it gets this, it goes home satisfied, regardless of the structure of the play and the probability of the plot". The result is the popularity of the mystery plays like The Cat and the Canary, or of riotous farces such as The First Year. During the past season, plays of undoubted merit failed in New York owing to this particular taste for the exotic and thrilling...
...American Committee has procured an ideal site for the Library building. It is a large plot, almost square, with a frontage of over two hundred feet, or somewhat less than a city block. The building will face the large central square of the town, La Place du Pueple, a grass-covered common intersected with walks and dotted with trees and shrubbery...
...second year of Napoleon's empire, the scene is laid in New England on an estate which, even if it was in disrepair had "lawns that ran down to the river where our ships pulled at their anchors". The action catches the fire from the flame of a royalist plot, which having been stamped out in France has thrown a few sparks across the Atlantic. These may have smouldered for some time but when we take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have...
Love and mystery supported by a fairly original plot...