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...should that august and venerated gentleman return, for a few loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense. There is a notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose...
...WILD DUCK-Ibsen's horrible jest at all his own life stood for. Wherein a young idealist scatters several lives upon the desert of despondency...
Hardihood* "Realism Has Crossed the Potomac," by Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill...
...containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant, "to test the law." But it turned out an infectious jest. Laws tending to infringe upon the freedom of mankind's intellectual liberty had been cropping up all over the country lately-an anti-parochial-and-private-school law in Oregon (TIME, Mar. 30, SUPREME COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution...
...play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone. The "religious tract" is a rare combination of uproarious wit, and preaching which is sometimes in deadly earnest, sometimes more than half in jest, and sometimes you can't quite be sure which. It is sufficient praise to the Copley players to add that such a piece loses nothing in their hands...