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...Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...
Until the last act it scarcely seems possible that that other promising juvenile." William Janney, who takes the hurdles as Tommy, can be compared to his teammate, Peg. But in the last act he stages a Jack Dalton, and saves the cLeeild, with an excellent performance as Tommy-When-Drunk, and that though he is sober as Andrew Volstead...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...
...Russell Janney, producer of "Sancho Panza," has endeavored to maintain the spirit of Cervantes' "Don Quixote", so that those who are familiar with the famous Don and his encounter with the windmills may not be disappointed in the transferring of the atmosphere from the book to the stage. Even Sancho Panza's famous donkey, "Dapple", has not been overlooked. In fact, he shares honors with Mr. Skinner...
...School have been elected to the Editorial Board: Walter Albert Buck of East Libetty, Pa.; Charles Gage Brenneman of Ava, III.; Edgar Ray Broenniman, of New York; Geoffry Chamberlain, of Cambridge; Walton Dismukes, of Santa Ana, Cal.; Gerald Edward Donovan, of Auburndale; Arthur Bernard Gunnarson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Alfred Janney Johnson, of Columbus, O.; Murray Webb Latimer, of Clinton; S. C. Palmer, and George Herdman Rutherford, of Lancaster...