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Money Business. Lew Fields, who teamed so successfully and so long with Joe Weber, comes back by himself in a straight comedy. It is the story of a delicatessen dealer who plunged in Wall Street with grievous consequences. Mr. Fields is pretty funny now and then, and the play is pretty dull all the time...
...exception of the story which begins with the two newlyweds in a Pullamn and later contains references to oranges, there is hardly an antique and hoary wheeze which does not stage a comeback somewhere between the "Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about the coon who burns his finger on the "damned stove" while his wife asks "Why didn...
Poor old figurehead. His glories are over; he is thoroughly exposed. But he has one more chance for that publicity he craves. Let him marry a laundress and set up a delicatessen store in New Rochelle, N. Y. The resultant bankruptcy and divorce proceedings will figure largely in the journals of his old well-wisher, Herr Hearst. For he will never attain prominence as a "second story" man. He lacks the necessary imagination, or else, since nobody loves him, he can continue to go out into the garden--and saw wood...
...that I ain't got some good friends at Yale too. I know a lot of high toned people because only yesterday I took a picture of Ethel Baltimore who is a very classy actress and is now playing on Broadway in a new show which it is called "Delicatessen." You should see her in the sad parts where she cries so that you would think that the show was losing money instead of going...