Word: jests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JEST - Reviewed in this issue...
...Jest. Six seasons ago Arthur Hopkins delivered regretfully to the storehouse the magnificent remains of his original production of this Italian play. Lionel Barrymore had business elsewhere and John Barrymore was restive to play Richard III. The Jest had far from outlasted its Manhattan popularity, to say nothing of prospective great prosperity on tour. For six seasons Mr. Hopkins has been hoping to revive it. But John Barrymore has not been so minded and Lionel had other obligations. Accordingly Mr. Hopkins has finally done The Jest with a new and enduring magnificence and without benefit of Barrymore...
...gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...
Intimates of the Prince of Wales lay back weakly in easy chairs and gasped that another jest like that from which they had just recovered would be the death of them...
Edward of Wales, however, had foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...