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Bertha Kalich and Jacob Ben-Ami have left the English stage for a brief period. During the Passover season they will star in Yiddish companies which will produce the leading Yiddish classics...
...Young, critic for The New Republic, observes the current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that of Ben Ami, Charles Chaplin and Duse in particular, the cinema, the effect of poetic drama on the actor, the Theatre Guild's production of He Who Gets Slapped. THE TYRANNY OF POWER - D. Thomas Curtin. Little, Brown ($2.00). This book is valuable chiefly as a study of melancholy conditions existing in the West Virginia coal...
...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...Ami was all that he has been reputed to be somewhat crude still but tremendously effective and appealing to the sympathies. His face is remarkably capable of expression. It has been long since we have seen an sector with so expressive a month. Although his outburst at the end of the second act, when he assails the lover of his wife, is magnificently powerful and his reaction equally affecting. It is in the quieter scenes that Ben-Ami's talents are at their best. The opening tete-a-tete with his wife and the scene at the beginning...
Just to demonstrate to the visiting cast that they were playing in Boston, the audience received the more serious parts of play with true Bostonian Litters. And when Ben-Ami ended by shooting himself through the stomach he was rewarded by generous guffaws...