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...their dull lives seem deeply significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded...
Richard Dix in "Lovin' the Ladies" provides the other feature picture and does an adequate job: masquerading as a gentleman instead of the good electrician he really is. Dix is strongly reminiscent of the chauffeur in Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman." The story drags in the latter reels...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
METEOR-Alfred Lunt as a tortured superman...
...carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete with lovelorn poets, exaggerated cigaret holders, and the Nietzschean superman who mightily desired her. Outnumbered and surrounded, David wins...