Word: quinteros
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Majestic--Otis Skinner in "One Hundred Years Old." Tranquil and pleasant study of a centenarian by the Quintero brothers...
...alert to quench the enthusiastic fervor of youth. If an occasional sympathetic portrayal is presented, as in "Old English" the hero is made out to be scapegrace of one sort or another whom one loves partly in spite of and partly because of his faults. Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, the leading present-day Spanish play-wrights, have made a real addition to the literature of the stage in "A Hundred Years Old" (El Centenario)' for this play, now being shown at the Majestic, is unique in that old age is glorified in its own right...
...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...