Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Crews' acting of the disagreeable mother role granting the truth of the author's conception of this role that of an artificial and self-centered woman is very close to perfection, and one could hardly imagine a more convincing portrait of the daughter in-law battling for her rights than that given by Elisabeth Risdon, who fully justifies the predictions made for her future when she was still in minor roles...
...Today the theatre is a place of youth. Practically all the work of the stage is being done by young men today." Vinton Freedley '14, one of the young men of the threatre at the present time, and author of "Lady, Be Good," "Tip Toes," "Oh Kay," "Funny Face," and "Here's Howe" now playing at the Shubert, is the authority for this statement...
...type of play they are producing nowadays is primarily the musical comedy," said Freedley. Being particularly interested in musical comedy, the author of "Here's Howe" proceeded to review for the CRIMSON reporter the building up of a girl-and-music show...
...Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...
Weaving, a story around the murder trial of Roxie Hart whose role is very capably played by Fiancine Larrimore, the author burlesques on the recent trials of bobbed-haired bandits and wronged mothers. Roxie is seduced to her own room by her paramour, kills him, and goes on trial with only the women's benefit league, twelve sentimental jurymen and her foolish husband to back...