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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
Reginald Owen makes an ingratiating Prince, and Betty Schuster's Baroness is among Broadway's handsomer sights. One would like to know whether Author Geyer or Translator Wodehouse is responsible for Mr. Howard's mot in the second act. When the Prince inquires what sort of women are customarily available to valets. he replies: "A cook, a lady's maid, and possibly a governess-at Christmas...
...rest of the show is only fair. Roy Frazee's organ specialty barely gets by. The animated cartoon is all right if you like that sort of thing; and "The Girl Scout Trail" can be heartily recommended to incipient Girl Scouts...
Grant Mitchell is one of those actors who are perennially the same, who year in and year out, choose the same sort of ingratiating part for themselves, and when a new one fails to appear, and they find themselves faced with joblessness, set to work and revive an old one. Sometimes they make huge hits that way. More often they fail miserably. And still more often they turn out to be the kind of undistinguished, evenly flowing, slightly more than mediocre production that wended its quiet way across the proscenium of the Plymouth Theatre last night...
...tailor-made play in every respect, Grant Mitchell's revived vehicle is not unpleasant. Depending on the locality, it would be described as "an agreeable farce comedy", a "healthy" one or an "Inconsequential" one. The curtain-line is: "Isn't life a wonderful proposition after all?" That's the sort of play...