Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plymouth--"The Judge's Husband", with William Hodge...
...some people he writes his own plays, and aims them straight at the blunt heads of the middle-class. His purpose is to make people happy, and in the cheapness of his conception he can see only such trite comedy props as boot-leg whiskey, puppy-love, and husband vs. wife warfare in three rounds. As a playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually acts...
...present production Mr. Hodge is more fortunate than usual. "The Judge's Husband" is not nearly as bad as "Dog Love", a recent effort, nor is the cast by any means weak. Mr. Hodge has delved into the legal archives of Connecticut and extracted a law which permits a judge to act as witness in his own case, provided both parties agree to allow him. Starting with this comparatively simple point, Hodge complicates the plot by making the judge a woman, the plamtiff the husband of that woman, and the attorney the other man in the divorce case. In other...
...Falls will be addressed this afternoon by Mr. Blank, the young American poet, who will take as his subject "Browning's Effect on Me". The one with the lorgnette will have another just like it and swell with emotion at intervals of ten seconds by the wrist watch her husband, gave her as a peace offering the last time he came back from a short business trip to New York and preferred blindes. The insignificant from--will hurry to tell Mr. Blank how she had read his verse while a college girls. He will look at her and believe...
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em. John V. A. Weaver, who claims fame as the author of a book of verse, In American, and as the husband of Peggy Wood, has herewith written his first play. To assist him he found George Abbott who, with James Gleason, wrote The Fall Guy. Together they have fashioned a homely fable of those who watch the song and sorrow of metropolitan life from the cheap seats. Clerks and poor boardinghouse folk are their characters. Their touch is shrewd and their comedy genuinely entertaining...