Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout his tale Author Powys allegorizes to high heaven. The story is better helped along by its author's beautifully artless style, and occasional quirks of humor...
...twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor in the dialogue, none of it conspicuously original in tone. Reminiscences of A. A. Milne were frequently both in the structure and the lines...
...wish that Miss Romany and Mr. Strudurick, as Amelia, and Wrigley, had more veuve. They both needed something, one cocktail apiece, perhaps. Mr. Cothem, however, as the inebriated Smythe, and he remains drunk throughout the play, was an endless source of humor. Amy Loomis, as Elizabeth Tweedle, his co-merrymaker, adds the crown of light amusement. Her sister, serene and reticent, played by Miss Ray; the pompous lawyer, George Appleway, played by Mr. Bowker; the ultra-coldness of Miss. Pointeyter, as the retainer; and the perfect butler, Mr. Lucas, are able and amusing types of the sophisticated Victorianism which forms...
...American Humor," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...scenes that follow the live twin tries to continue his impersonation of the dead one. He has a hard time and the humor of his actions is doubled by the fact that the audience is as baffled as he. When the dead twin's secretary (Kay Francis) comes into the room, she expects the live one to start dictating "where we left off yesterday." He finds himself harassed by blackmailers without knowing who they are and has no one to help him but a blubbering ne'er-do-well (Stuart Erwin), whose mere presence is almost sufficient...