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...Pudding play the thread of the plot may be never so tenuous--it may be reduced to a mere "vibration"; the "stunts" may be perfectly irrelevant, even unblushingly lugged in, and may outweigh all the rest; but so long as the music is gay--with some of the solos pretty; so long as the action is amusing, and the whole thing is given with gusto--that is all we have any right to demand of a Pudding play...
...Crystal Gazer" comes up to this standard; it has possibly more plot than the average; one can actually keep it in sight except at two points--one in the first act, when Ozab recommends the wrong suitor, and the other his too sudden unmasking at the end. The characters are sufficiently well conceived, although the figure of the social aspirant has been overdone of late; and the actors fit the parts--or rather the parts the actors better than is often the case. Mr. Savery may then be congratulated. The music is more than gay; it is melodious and skilfully...
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...ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars, and the undergraduate who likewise was "not perceptibly" attending Professor Winthrop's course--these hits will not soon be forgotten. When in addition it can be truly said that the plot,--in even the best of comedies of manners likely to be weak,--is sufficiently plausible and decidedly interesting; it is obvious that Miss Stanwood fully deserves the great applause which she received...
...Romanesques" is one of Rostand's best works and is considered superior to "I'Aigion" by some crities. The following is a short synopsis of the plot...