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...insanity, moon madness. Also a philippic against the over-possessive mother. Brilliant performances by Henrietta Crosman, Beatrice Terry, Florence Johns. SUN UP-Wherein a pipe-smoking virago of the Carolina mountains perceives that patriotism and motherhood overshadow feud hatred. SEVENTH HEAVEN - From the sewer life of Paris to a garret honeymoon. Helen Menken, the War, and a long black whip provide most of the agitation...
These plangent protests seem ill considered. It is probable that any parents who are so shiftless as to stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Drama in a Paris garret, revolving about a modern Cinderella whose wicked big sister beats her. The worm turns and Helen Menken flagellates her evil relative with a blacksnake whip in a moment of thrilling melodrama...
...dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp rolls, a dainty pat of butter, and good coffee sending up a delicious aroma, etc., etc., etc. . . . constitute a breakfast that...
...commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal of the boy was not always sucessful. Mr. Charlton as Doctor Garret is too repressed he finds it so easy to look grim and sad that he frequently overdoes it. In "The End of the Bridge", the Boston Stock Company has got hold of a very difficult, though interesting, piece. All in all, they acquit themselves creditably, if no more...