Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DRACULA?Creepy conglomeration of life, love and a ghost who drinks blood...
...Copley Theatre for the first time on any stage, and for the unfortunate spectator who is forced to sit through its three lengthy acts, it becomes quite apparent why the play has never been produced before. Apparently Mr. Clive, emerging from the recent record run of "The Ghost Train" feels himself in a position where he may experiment with this and that, the experiment in this case being a venture into lush, melodramatic sentimentality...
...minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince goes offstage following the Apparition. I try to preserve the immediate thought and keep the old ladies from gossiping about better and worse Hamlets that they have known, by continuing after the slightest possible break...
...cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies, as well as the sailors, seemed to enjoy...
GALLIONS REACH-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper ($2.50). After he killed a man on board a boat at "Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent...