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...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?Satire mingled with rollicking burlesque, as the scalp of the tired business man is lifted and the inner workings of his brain revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK ? Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback. He is now the official "incidentalist" for the serious metropolitan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Magazine | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

EXPRESSING WILLIE-A deft satire on the ludicrous results when a business man has an artistic reach that is longer than his grasp. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?A delightful compound of reality and fantasy, in which Freud is actually turned to dramatic use without becoming a clinical bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 23, 1924 | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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