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...George Arliss has brought a Barrie play of marked distinction to the Hollis Street Theatre in "The Well Remembered Voice", which is given in conjunction with Hubert Henry Davies' three act comedy, "The Mollusc." A war story with a spiritual theme has to be unusually convincing to hold the interest of the theatre going audience today--the public is rather well fed up now on the war. Yet Barries' play is not only convincing, it is artistic and sets us to metaphysical speculations and analyses, which our ordinary every day life tends to suppress...
...English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead. But it is to his father that...
...George Arliss, as the father, gives us a remarkably distinguished picture of the British spirit which made it possible for England to go on building more ships and munitions, and sending millions of here sons into battle, when the flower of the nation had died. Mrs. Arliss affords her husband able support, and Olive Tell, as the old sweetheart, is pleasant to look upon...
...Jumple Shop at 4.15 Boylston street, Boston, which is run by the Allied Bazaar, will hold a special Harvard afternoon today. The ladies of George Arliss company, in "The Professor's Love Story," will serve tea from 3.30 to 5.30 o'clock...
...Professor's Love Story," as Mr. Arliss said after the second act, first produced by E. S. Willard, has still the freshness and delicacy of its first nights. What is remarkable in it is typical of the genius of Barrie. It is the power of rising form delicate nothings to real emotions with the break between so manages as to give the greatest effect. The audience is prepared by the first two acts for some clever and dainty trifle in the third, but the audience finds itself very near tears as it watches an act of high beauty and real...