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Small Miracle (by Norman Krasna; Courtney Burr, producer) attempts, with considerable success, to make a Grand Hotel of the lounge in a Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers...
Louder, Please. So well has Playwright Norman Krasna, onetime office boy for the defunct New York Sunday World, observed the greased-lightning satires of Ring Lardner, George S. Kaufman and Charles MacArthur that none of these practitioners should be ashamed to set their names to Louder, Please. It is a good imitation of the sort of thing that blasted audiences out of their seats several seasons back when Lee Tracy, he of the sunken cheeks, long legs and yellow hair, was romping through Broadway and The Front Page. Happily the services of Actor Tracy have been secured for Louder, Please...