Word: dovey
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...last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor balls...
...theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas, from "Her Soldier Boy" at the Shubert; Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, Oscar Shaw and Julia Mills, of the "Very Good Eddie" company; the Aborn Opera Company, and acts from Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, B. F. Keith's and the Orpheum Theatres...
...Alice Dovey is particularly effective as the saccharine bride of a "big, strong man," and Anna Orr is full of that particular "pep" which is bound to get across. Oscar Shaw, as the dashing Dick Rivers is highly amusing and the hotel clerk of Denman Maley is a character which should go down in musical comedy history...