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...large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege of the farceur...
...Kister's "Flats and Mansions" seems directly influenced by the much discussed and probably overrated "Lifiom". The hero, who, though an Irishman, is not a villain, goes to Heaven and completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the least interesting part of the story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary...
Dean Briggs said that the facts of the poem were essentially true and that they were brought to Browning's notice through an old document which he picked up for a pittance. The author introduced his imagination and into the story wove a complex plot. The author shows a wide knowledge of Italy, but his most remarkable understanding is of the relations between man and woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight...
...overcome--that is, if we were competent at dealing with large figures. This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because he could do this he was made to do it, though he regularly protested. But after years...
...recall that delightful playlet "Kisses" of seven years ago, will be woefully disappointed in its present counterpart "Wednesday at the Ritz". An ingenious setting whereby the stage is divided into "Parlour, Bedroom, and Bath" forms the background for a farce which is marked by the comparative novelty of its plot and the hopeless commonplaceness of its lines. A long way from the "all-star" bill of seven years past...