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Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
...Dickens, an author whom, by the way, he greatly admires. In the first place he is short, rotund, jovial, given to elaborate and biting statements punctuated by gestures which are often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems to have a knowledge of the theatre but he occasionally permits himself rare and unreasoning enthusiasms off the track of popular approval. This is good. Any critic worth his salt, it seems...
...adding machine supplanted the Dickensian bookkeeper, as the automobile did away with landau and phaeton, so the radio, it is said, is rapidly evicting the old-fashioned reciter from his or her diminishing place in the sun. Oh, many are still to be found! Professors of elocution ? even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper...