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These two lines from the "Pursuit of Pamela", a sentimental farce (on the program they call it a comedy) now playing at the Copley give the gist of the plot. The Jewett Players are never quite so delightful as when that farce is tinged with a certain amount of real humor of line and situation, the production is sure to be excellent indeed...
...Pusuit of Pamela", as has been more than suggested above is not comedy--the plot, the characters, the procedure are all too outrageous for that; but played as a tremendous joke with a little serio-comic sentimental trimming, it succeeds admirably. No-one could take the adventures of the unsophisticated young American girl, who leaves her aged husband five minutes after marrying him to chase around the world after a penniless Englishmen, too seriously. The rapid geographical movements of the characters--from Hawaii via Japan, China, the North Pole, and Russia to Canada--are in themselves too preposterous for anything...
...them that he is right. In the meanwhile, Lady Clarissa has found that her true fate is John"s secretary ; she proposes to him and is accepted. The happy couple break the news to the great business man, who generously gives his sucessful rival a "raise." Such is the plot of what is undoubtedly a very mechanically constructed play...
...Hinckley on Monday afternoon, March 21, and on Wednesday evening, March 23, at the National Theatre, Boston. Miss Hinckley is president of the club and author of "The Reunion" produced by the University Dramatic Club. The play is based upon the biography and letters of Jane Austen with the plot formed about the incidents mentioned in her biography. Both productions are for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund and tickets for the performance may be obtained at the Fund Headquarters. Herrick's or the Cooperative Society...
...accordingly employs the services of Mr. Stein, a theatrical manager, in order to produce Shakespeare in New York. His sudden attraction for Goldie MacDuff, who is cast as Ophelia, and a grandfather who would much rather see Rollo interested in air-brakes than in acting, cause complications in the plot; while the attempt of Rollo's company to produce Hamlet brings in the farcical element. In places the farce is carried a little too far, and the unreality of it makes it less effective than if it had been more moderately treated; added to this the author has written dialogue...