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...retrospect it is seen to be riddled with faults. The plot is hackneyed, for it is the ancient story of what a wife does when she learns that her husband has been unfaithful to her. The lines possess a certain surface cleverness and brilliancy, but an unevenly mixed Coward-Barry-Lonsdale ancestry is painfully evident. In welcome relief to these mediocre features is the character portrayal; with the exception of the acidulous old lady who astounds the younger generation by being much more modern than they are and by freely using such words as bitch. Teresa, Sheridan, and Marcia...
...Thomas has failed to write a really good play; but then so have Mr. Coward, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Howard on all too many occasions. The great pity is that it comes so close to achieving its goal and yet misses it so definitely...
...have acted in, and therefore I am probably not the best judge. I know that some of his other works are quite different, and I should like to play in one of them. I consider O'Neill one of the three best modern dramatists, the other two being Noel Coward and Sherwood Anderson...
Yoshe Kalb was first performed last year in Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in lower East Side Manhattan. It prospered when such uptowners as Noel Coward and Jed Harris went to see it, told friends about it. After 82-year-old Daniel Frohman saw it he was so impressed he could not sleep, even on the floor. When later he heard that it had been done into English, he telegraphed Actor-Manager Schwartz: ''May I have the honor to produce it?'' Replied Mr. Schwartz...
Play Parade, by Noel Coward...