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...Theatre in Boston, and with John Barrymore and Mary Young taking the leading roles, made a record run on Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines and amusing situations. The plot revolves around a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested but wins the wager on a technicality...
...With plot-ingredients enough to make a brilliant little one-act farce, the producers of "His Bridal Night," now playing at Ye Wilbur Theatre, have spread the material at hand through three acts of more or less questionable uproariousness. Success of farce is due largely to the rapidity with which the thing moves, and certainly two or three big scenes, no matter how ludicrous, are not sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness...
Despite the familiar material utilized, the book is interesting and its story is coherently told. The plot centers on the attempts of the gallant and worldly-wise (and, as usual, much in debt) Captain Poildeau to find "The Beautiful Unknown," and gives in the running of its course opportunities for various characterizations in both serious and comedy fields. Charles Purcell as Captain Poildeau sings and acts in his usual manner; Miss Follies as "the daughter of the regiment" is dainty and sings prettily; and Miss Odell does an excellent bit of acting in the bazaar scene. Although the comedians--Messrs...
...three acts, the plot centres about the clash of Hungarian customs with American ideals, the former represented in the hero, and the latter in the American heroine. Miss Loveman is a nature of Hungary, so that her local color and characterization come at first hand...
...Lost Ships." "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, deals with the life of an immigrant on Ellis Island. It shows the effect of the Binet test in admitting many of the most objectionable immigrants, while desirable ones are often excluded. The Black Hand is also involved in the plot...