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...JEST - The glamor of an old success returns with new actors Basil Sydney, Alphonse Ethier, Violet Heming...
...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...
...commentators that Mr. Sydney is perhaps not so perfect in the role as John Barrymore. Ethier, say these same, is as good as Mr. Lionel. Violet Heming is considerably better than the girl six years ago (her name escapes). But comparisons, as has been said, are odious. The present Jest is far too fine to admit of them. It easily ranks among the scattered few you must not miss...
...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...