Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath to Allah, bounds saddleward, up and away...
...play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell starts going home...
There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
...paper. When he left, he said, "Now I'll be a producer," a remark which was supposed to annoy the editor but instead only made him laugh. Jake Horowitz became a producer of publicity for the Shuberts, Mark Klaw and Richard Herndon. At this racket, he was good enough to make $3,000 which he speedily sank in his first production, The Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed it to Jed Harris. Next he wheedled enough more backing to put on Weak Sisters...
Miscellaneously, the year seems promising enough, as do all new seasons when viewed from the solstice. Beatrice Lillie will play in This Year of Grace and the Gershwins will supply songs in a new show for her old playmate Gertrude Lawrence. A play from Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father will be called The Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans...