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...Heywood Broun: "Some discipline of the sternest sort should be applied to Miss Francine Larrimore. It seems probable that this young actress has a gift for the theatre, but she has made precious little of it in the last three seasons. Instead of working upon a faulty speech and improving it she has intensified it for the sake of comedy effects in cuteness. Miss Larrimore ought to be made to stay in after school...
...which the audience itself become the seething citizenry. The first night gathering entered hilariously into the spirit of this trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude of the piece rises to magnificence," he admitted that he would not have missed...
Then there is that little matter of a Theatre Guild banquet?"the most prodigiously dull dinner of my experience." But despite his misfortune one would not have had him miss it. There were 13 speakers, which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who "said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb...
Finally, there are the Art-for-Art people headed by Heywood Broun of The World...
...Heywood Broun: "Elsie Ferguson gives an exquisite, thrilling performance...