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...Shanghai Marriage", by R. R. Harris, has been advertised as a comedy, but in reality it is a tragody for E. E. Clive, who is trying to make a comeback after having been forced to disband his Copley repertory company seventeen months ago. The audiences at the "world premiere" on Saturday night was composed mainly of old guard dowagers-with-nieces-from-the country and a smattering of Harvard students, and it was not long before they all realized the sadness of the occasion...
This being Holy Week and Boston being Boston, there is at present only one legitimate theatre in town that is not dark. That is the Copley; which offers the most typical mystery play this reviewer remembers having seen. All the props that one usually connects with a mystery are brought on the stage some time during the evening. Ghosts, bloody knives, numerous pistol shots, screams, moving bookcases, mysterious and sinister hands that reach out from secret panels to clutch the heroine are all displayed one after another, accompanied by the horrified (or was it delighted?) screams of the teminine half...
...muse of intoxicating comedy holds sway at the Copley Theatre this week in the revival of Leslie Howard's farce "Murray Hill". Into the unruffiled Victorianism of the Tweedle family on Murray Hill bursts the rampant spirit of twentieth century gaiety in the form of a renegade relative of the Tweedles, Worthington Smythe. He appears on the morning of the funeral of a great aunt, who has bequeathed him $1000,000, highly intoxicated, and in a crumpled dress-suit. To save this youth from the wrath of his aunts, the family lawyer, Appleway, of "Appleway, Appleway, and Plunket", uses...
Folksy mid-western geniality again reigns supreme at the Copley theatre this week in the hilarious little farce, "Your Uncle Dudley", written by two clever actor-playwrights, Messrs. Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve...
Representatives of the Harvard Military and Naval Science Departments and of the Army and Navy will attend the fourth annual Harvard Military Ball to be given at the Copley-Plaza Hotel tonight...