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With all due gratitude for Mr. Frankau's tribute the more remarkable as coming from a visiting lecturer, which genus usually excells in destructive criticism most theatregoers would question the essential truth of his remarks. Last season Miss Edua Best appearing with Cyril Maude in an Arlen concoction, "These Charming People," demonstrated to the delight of hundreds the undeniable ability of at least one English actress. Her forte was, true enough, light comedy, but it was done with much more finesse than is customary over here. But, flvolous though the type is, it is immensely entertaining. The American playgoer might...
...public wants (in addition to a good five cent cigar, as F. P. A. would say) is more of Mr. Jolson's Mammy songs sung by Mr. Jolson and less turgid mourning. Therefore when he bids good-bye to the ubiquitous Shuberts and joins forces with Mr. Michael Arlen Woods, who used to be content with bedroom comedies but who now seems to feel the urge to better things, he is doing no great service for anybody--including himself...
...Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...
...picture as a whole has, all Arlen aside, very little to commend it. The story is rather thin and the direction has watered it sufficiently to make it even thinner. It is an attempt to bring whimsy into the moving pictures. And Barrie alone can do that. Robert Cain, who acts the part of half villain, half friend of the family, or to be exact the hero's "battle field chum", does so with no apparent knowledge of the histrionic art. Frances Grant, the Mammy who tours around with Miss Mackaill as Miss Mackaill seeks her revenge...
...which carries the trite title--"Southern Memories". Some of their steps are excellent, especially the flight of wooden ones on which they mix Charleston and Russian with occasional departures from the norm. Al Mitchell can return to Roseland. He and his band are not absolute necessities. In fact Mr. Arlen would not abide them. He would do just what a certain critic did the other night, only more so. Which after all as the birds which nest on the towers of Our Lady of the Evening would complacently chirp is something