Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still higher because he likes to use the full Philadelphia Orchestra. But Stokowski asked nothing for his tense, vital leadership last week. He returned from his Mexican travels in the best of humor, magnanimously announced that he would contribute his part of H. P. free, "as an expression of his admiration for Mexican culture...
...typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast...
...owner of a yacht. Not realizing these facts, the be castled father (acted by Clive) goes forward with plans to find in the town a suitable wench to act as co-respondent in the promised divorce suit. From this last bit of embarrassment is derived the principle humor of the play, with its culminating bedroom scene...
Throughout there are occasional bursts of humor, but most of the robust opportunities have been either overlooked or avoided. The leading parts of the missionary (Katherine Standing) and the sailor (David Tearle) are under-acted, while the various character parts are over-acted in every case with the possible exception of Clive's. The only memorable part is that of an alluring chambermaid (Elizabeth Johnston) sent to seduce the hero, but who succeeds only in winning the hero's cockney steward...
...England, and has something or other to do with an attempted insurance fraud. Thanks to three or four obviously arch-villains who intermittently sneak about the dark corners of the stage the suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing...