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...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...
...Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes of Edmond Hoyle as chief U. S. oracle on games of chance, furnishes convincing statistics. If you play poker, you may recognize yourself. If you cannot bear the game, it is at least valuable...
...effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...composer of this singularly unoriginal fable was the facile A. A. Milne. His slender and seductive touch for dialog was never needed more. Generally, it was equal to the crisis. Pondering over the entire problem, one can conclude that A. A. Milne, the Theatre Guild and Laura Hope Crews are a trio that has done so many things thoroughly well that anything they do must be of genial consequence...