Word: act
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...therefore, the benefit of a specially selected cast. To judge from the symptoms of real success and ability clearly apparent in the play we shall hear much more from and of Mr. Andrews within the next few years in the world of the theatre. "America Passes By," his one act play, given last year by the Dramatic Club, heralded a sincerity, delicacy, and insight sadly rare among our present-day dramatists. In the longer play of this week we find more traits of excellence, if not always fully developed at least suggested. It is the second in a series...
...plotting that the author is as yet least sure, for, while it hangs together excellently in its early parts, towards the end the play loosens perceptibly in structure. It may be, however,--or so it seems--that injudicious, wholesale cutting has removed necessary material and caused the last act to seem altogether wrong in its emphasis. The first two acts are splendid; the third wavers momentarily and falls a little below their standard, while the last seems entirely out of key with the rest. But the average struck is high indeed, judged by every modern standard...
...spite of popular support, the Unionist Party, as any other party would have been, was helpless to solve the vital questions affecting Porto Rico--the relations between the island and the United States, the curbing of the omnipotence of corporations, etc., for the simple reason that by the Foraker Act we have been living until now virtually under the complete control of a council appointed by the President of the United States, and which with the governor also appointed, had legislative, judicial, and executive powers, the whole government being in its hands...
...seen in one production. One after one, we watch them immolated on the alter of that very uninteresting young man, Arthur Pendennis, played in a restrained fashion by Mr. Walter Kingsford, -- the beautiful young mother, the lovely giantess in the prologue, the exquisite little Cockney laundress in the first act...
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...