Word: humored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Street Theatre during the week. The play is a modern comedy based upon ordinary scenes in Wall Street. The characters represent typical New York financiers and those who are popularly supposed to be their victims. Helen Dauvray, the heroine, is excellent as an American girl of sense and and humor and carries a difficult part well. The hero represents the head of the New York Clearing House and is said to be a good study of the original. As a whole the acting, which is admirable, is much better than the play itself, which is very wordy and loosely...
...Boston Museum continues to be stow upon its many patrons "All the Comforts of Home," with all its wealth of wit and humor. The cast is substantially the same as at its first presentation, and while the play in parts is a trifle coarse, as a whole it is very well received by the audience...
...Comforts of Home" is not exactly the play one would expect to find at the typical theatre of eminently conservative Boston. As a thoroughly laughable farce, however, the play is decidedly successful. The chief adverse criticism to be made is that there is at times not sufficient variety of humor...
Boston Museum.Although All the "Comforts of Home" has been running almost two months, its pleasant humor and vivaciousness still continue to please merous people, and the audiences which laugh with genial Jack Mason are as large as ever...
...Comforts of Home" began its fifth week at the Boston Museum last evening. The delightful humor of Mr. Gillett's comedy and the "go" given by the characters insure many weeks...