Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman, C. F. Farbach, Ruth Cox; B. Barton, Phyllis Brown; C. R. Paine, Dorothy Garland; T. R. Rodgers, Elizabeth M. Savage; P. Bauer; Bernard Barton...
...retrospects: in particular, Philip Barry, John Howard Lawson, Lulu Vollmer among the novices; Icebound, the Pulitzer prize play by the reformed Mr. Owen Davis-a solid if unspectacular contribution; The Adding Machine, with its satire, gloom and power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...
Meanwhile, John Barton Payne and Charles B. Warren, U. S. Commissioners, are in closet conference with the representatives of the Mexican Government, Senores Ramon Ross and Gonzales Roa. The conference is reported to be making " excellent progress." All the delegates are jubilant over a prospective and proverbial happy ending...
...music becomes too plaintively reminiscent of every other musical comedy of the year, the cast livens things up by bursting into a spasm of dancing :-and someone is dancing nearly all the time. Which is as it should be, for all the dancing is good, and James Barton's eccentric shuffling and fandangoing are incomparable. There seems to be practically nothing this stringy personage cannot do with his feet and legs-they are flexible as spaghetti-you feel that he could tie them behind his ears in a true-lovers' knot if he chose. The show contains nothing...
Alexander Woollcott: " Barton . . . you should mention him in the great company of Nijinski and Charles Chaplin...