Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-six prisoners in the Scioto County jail, Portsmouth, Ohio, were last week guests at a farewell party given by Fellow-Convict...
...agreed in their pre-reviews that Harvard was indeed fortunate in having secured the services of these two masters of theatre; yet it must have seemed to the audience at Brattle Hall yesterday evening that the two were unsuccessful collaborators. There is a flavor to the work of this fellow Shakespeare as his past productions have taught the theatre-going public which suffers from dilution. As a rule his work lacks the zip and go of most modern drama. It is powerful stuff. But here, in conjunction with the more American touches of Mr. Massey its tempo seems slow...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...
...Negroes lends a flavor of piquancy to what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...