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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero and the heroine are in bed when the curtain rises. It is War time; his leave has been curtailed. There is no time for marriage. Not many days later a German shell hoists him abruptly Heavenward. Four years later, and she, in love with another man, the fact of that War night together is accidentally revealed at a house party. Not many moments pass before it is revealed that her old love still lives, blind, in a tiny English town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...When the curtain went up on "The Swan" last Monday night, the audience at the Hollis watched unfold a play of many moods. Satire bordering on burlesque, comedy on the comic, sentimentality on melodrama--the humors theatrical were well represented. Conceived in a graceful ease that could be only Continental, cloaked in dignity by the translation of Melville P. Baker '22, and conveyed to the audience by a company at once able and sincere, Ferenc Molnar's play established itself as entertainment in the most hospitable sense of the word...

Author: By T. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

...audience showed phenomenally good taste, and applauded vociferously. Although the performance lasted over three hours, there was little restlessness, and many curtain calls...

Author: By T. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

...only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 9, 1925 | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...curtain speech Monday night, Mr. Craven said that he had returned from his scheduled retirement to play the part of the young son, because of the sickness of the actor assigned to the part, and the lack of a capable understudy. But the role he has created in Mr. Thomas Watson Jr. could only suffer in the hands of some other player. The part of the grouchy old father is played in the manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory...

Author: By J. C., | Title: CRABS HAVE FIELD DAY IN CRAVEN'S COMEDY | 2/6/1925 | See Source »

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