Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lovely Lady. Jesse Lynch Williams wrote a crisp comedy some seasons ago called Why Marry and was applauded mightily. He followed it with one called Why Not, slipping a notch or two down in entertainment values. This, his third, is pretty definitely uninteresting despite his irresistible facility for smart dialog. He deals with the not particularly novel theme of a father and son in pursuit of the same lovely lady. She happens to be a lady not exactly young, nor too immaculate of reputation. Bruce McRae and Elizabeth Risdon contribute generously with deft performances...
...would be decidedly unfair to dismiss the play because of its glaring defects. There are a gorgeous fabric of southern dialog, a true echo of the indomitable manhood of What Price Glory, a thrilling love scene, and some moments of shrewd excitement. The play will undoubtedly remain as a valuable, if fanciful, page of U. S. history. The acting of Rudolph Cameron and Helen Chandler in the chief parts was more than satisfactory. And the play is probably the only one ever produced through which the difficult southern dialect was consistently and convincingly maintained...
...gusty psychology of tramp life, the cruelty and the laughter, the denial of the lot of man to work -these are the themes. It is not a pretty play nor is its dialog courteously scented. It seems a true play, strong and sound. It is charged with the vigor of an engrossing humor...
...rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose ends and faulty emphases and win through to the central piece of work that recommends the book. The characterization of gangling young Bronson Kenworthy, precocious, perverse, love-starved divorce-victim, is striking. He is brought...
...Presidential Palace, the outgoing Premier, M. Michalakopoulos, was present, according to custom, when the Pangalos Cabinet was sworn in. The following dialog was reported...