Word: bainter
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...Messrs. Shubert present Fay Bainter in "First Love" with Bruce McRae in a New Comedy badly adapted by Zoe Atkins from the French play "Pile ou Face" by Louis Venneuil. Miss Bainter's gowns, unfortunately, are by Boue Soeurs...
...Count has a son who has left his father's bed and board three years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect 7,452 francs that the son owes him. The Count...
...second act is in the garret room in which live Mr. Kerr and Miss Bainter. It is certainly the best part of the play, though the author takes too much pain to convince his indifferent audience that Mr. Kerr and Miss Bainter are most irretrievably in love through the introduction of 266 amatory forms of address, 33 kisses, and 18 embraces. At the end of the act Mr. Kerr has gone off to marry his Father's choice in a plot to obtain the 500,000 franc bribe and then desert her, while Miss Bainter has gone...
...years, and in Paris. There is a father (Bruce McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden of entertaining the audience through three word-puffed acts. The burden is too great, even though shared by Mr. McRae, famed fascinator...
...once said of Fay Bainter that she was probably a very pleasant person though technically not a fine actress. Since she is not called upon to do any special acting herein, the question will probably not be solved until next season. By that time, so many people will have seen and fallen captive to her naive and witching charm that the solution will probably not make any difference anyway...