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...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"?The old story of the clown who could laugh for everyone but himself, made new again in a glamorous collaboration of David Belasco and Lionel Barrymore...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH !"-Lionel Barrymore in a shiny new version (Belasco) of the clown yarn-he who could smile for everyone but himself...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"-The familiar Punchinello plot made shiny and new by the skillful Belasco-Barrymore (Lionel) touch...
...Other Rose. Those who journey to the Morosco Theatre for the next month or two may expect to be submerged quietly and comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
...morally sure she was going to win, even if her name hadn't been up in the lights outside. Henry Hull plays Tony and Carlotta Monterey the losing Rose. With such a group there really was no need for a plot; accordingly they all sit about the exquisite Belasco settings (Maine coast in summer) and simply spend three acts in engaging chatter. Excellent minor contributions are made by Effie Shannon as Tony's mother and by Andrew J. Lawlor, Jr., as the offensive younger brother of the winning Rose...