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Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have their way in many an oral encounter...
...Gabriel Dregley's "The Well-Fitting Dress Suit," received an unusually responsive reception at the Hollis Street Theatre last night. Witty from start to finish it is as brilliant exposition of the rise of the man of destiny as its predecessor on the Boston boards a few months ago, "Bunker Bean," was a failure...
Grant Mitchell as John Paul Bart, the man of destiny, could not fail to succeed the moment he stepped upon the stage. Unlike "Bunker Bean" he has none of that ethereal something which makes him believe in his success. He is practical, alive, masculine from beginning...
Miss Florence Shirley, the saving grace of "Bunker Bean," had little opportunity of showing her abilities as an actress in the part of Tanya, the tailor's daughter. Her part of the quiet, trusting, believing German girl she played well. Miss Kingsley as Corinne Stanlaw, the heiress, and Robert Fisher, delightfully foreign as Dr. Sonntag, the scholar, are also worthy of mention...
...Bostonians are going to like "Bunker Bean," and eight telephone girls in back of me last night did not like it, I am afraid that the Athens of the North has forfeited her ancient right to the name of the city of discrimination. FREDERICK KEMP...