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...naturally supposing for the first page or two that she wore the sort of costume commonly attributed to the inhabitants of lonely tropical islands? Mr. Chambers does not explain, and his story accordingly leaves the reader skeptical. Mr. Train writes with less distinction, but his tale has an ingenious plot and a pleasant down-East atmosphere...
...contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received the laughs they merited. But when at the close of the second...
...lucky spendthrift who loses both his money and girl at one time. He is deceived by Arthur Cadman, her fiancee, who also is doing a dubious business with Darcy's money. By a little detective work, Stanton follows the Darcy family to Palm Beach, where he discloses the plot of Valera Valador, played by Miss Francesco Rotoli,--who attempts to involve Stanton in former shady connections with her, although Cadman had really been the deceiver. When Cadman's evil ways are disclosed, Darcy consents to the breaking off of his daughter's engagement with him, and is glad to have...
...censorship lie. The requirements differ from state to state; one can "get by" with more in New York than in Massachusetts. The picture as seen in the one place will differ materially from that which is shown in the other. What further contortions the already highly elastic plot is doomed to undergo! Therein lies the fallacy of trying to censor the play after it is finished. Particularly objectionable parts are, indeed, removed and the piece rewritten and patched up; but the scissors cannot eliminate that much more subtle and deadly, influence of "atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere, such...
Philip Barry, Yale '19 and a graduate student at the University in 1919-20 is the author of "A Punch for Judy", a American comedy in three acts. The plot opens in a small up-state town of New York, to which "Jim Storey", J. W. D. Seymour '17, returns to find that has fiancée "Judy", Miss Dorothy Sans, Radcliffe '24, has shifted her affections to a poet of romantic tendencies. Story then sues Judy for breach of promise and has her tried before a mock count of his own choosing, which awards him $100,000. Later...