Word: beholding
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...audience to know that his appearance on the stage will immediately set the hearts of all its other occupants going lippity-lippity-lip, like Peter Rabbit, with love and excitement. If so, the quietly presentable John Marston has indeed been sorely tried this winter. In Behold, the Bridegroom, one taste of his fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon to act the part of Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women...
...heart. But while the best women of the older writer are young things, the best women of George Kelly are unmarried (even Craig's wife was not mentally married) and are yet at that fascinating turn in the road known as la femme de trente ans. Tony, heroine of "Behold, the Bridegroom", is twenty-seven, and the jacket calls her "a burnt candle...
...survive the completely hopeless first act or arrive happily late. "Behold the Bridegroom" is a good evening's investment. The rough points are hard to stomach, but there may quite possibly be the fundamentals of a great play in the rest...
...Behold the Bridegroom" can't quite be laughed off, much as one may feel the urge. From pure politeness appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn...
Other well regarded serious plays are: ESCAPE, CAPONSACCHI; Civic Repertory Theatre Productions; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM...