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Every year, on the anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Benkard & Co. present a Shakespearean recital, coached by Edward Fales Coward, onetime dramatic critic for the New York World, now connected with the firm. Broker Benkard is himself an authority on Shakespeare...
Easy Virtue. Noel Coward's third* play this season met with the coolest response of any of his works here presented. Only the inventive and glowing performance of Jane Cowl saved the situation...
...noted by several of the professional spectators that every English playwright has one plot in his system that he must unloose before he is happy. This is the story of the somewhat battered woman who marries into complete respectability and utter boredom (Tanqueray). Mr. Coward has now written it fairly well...
...exceptionally gifted cast to support the exceptionally gifted Miss Cowl was assembled by the Frohman Co. Mabel Terry Lewis and Halliwell Hobbes-both from England-stood out pleasantly. Mr. Coward's invention and conversation for the first two acts were agile and entertaining. Toward the end he fumbled. The direction was in the hands of Basil Dean, an opinion of whose abilities is submitted elsewhere on this page...
Died. John M. Coward, 55, at Glen Ridge, N. Y. He was owner of the famed Coward shoe factories and retail stores, financier, son of the late James S. Coward, by whom the business was founded...