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...Peake lay down to sleep, in blanched linen cool and lavendered, four rosewood bedposts carved in the images of four great swans watched her dreaming face, and over her lay a coverlet of antique French lace pricked with a legend that one did not translate aloud. With Admah Holtz, things were otherwise. His white-trash father drank himself to death, day by day, in the cabin kitchen where Ma Holtz made peppermint-drops for her son to hawk in the streets. Sometimes the girls in Miss Martincastle's school patronized him, Flora Lee once among them. Having seen, Admah...
Trini snapped her fingers and stamped her feet in the second scene, but though she was the out-standing woman of the piece, she wasn't allowed either to snap or stamp again and therefore became a bit boring. Her Hawaiian dance was the next best thing. Lou Holtz accompanied a Jolsonized monologue with two strings of his take-down guitar, but most of his jokes were old and a bit off-color. It seems odd that a black face and spoken song make a presentable imitation of Jolson. Kitty Doner's feet were in excellent form, and Jack Pearl...
...same show Lou Holtz, who is given some exceptionally clever lines, seems lacking in it?in a house filled with memories of the triumphs of Jolson. Marie Dressier, on the other hand, has personality in every square foot...