Word: kummer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POMEROY'S PAST?Laura Hope Crews and Ernest Truex in an agreeable Clare Kummer comedy...
Pomeroy's Past. Clare Kummer can balance the feather of wit on the foolish nose of her comedies just about as well as anybody in America. This latest of her all too infrequent writings is powdered with agreeable derision and encumbered with an incredibly heavy last act. If you examine it meticulously you will probably find that the other acts are not too effective. For the sake of the numerous excruciating lines you will waive this examination. Pomeroy's Past is an entertainment of major delight in the conversation. Otherwise it does not matter much...
...Hampton, onetime cinema actress, was dismissed at the eleventh hour. Critics say that neither had the essential domination to pay the role its due. With the exception of Wanda Lyon, the remainder of the company was ill selected. The humor of the event was in the hands of Clare Kummer who, contrary to her custom, did a dull job. The scenery, however, was superb; and the show emerged as the most beautiful in Manhattan. Unfortunately beauty and melody cannot carry an operetta unassisted...
...Clare Kummer was summoned to set to music her engaging comedy, Good Gracious, Annabelle. This will be remembered as a feathery adventure of an original young lady and a fierce cave man whom she reformed. It was chiefly characterization, unexpected remarks and utter nonsense. Apparently its elusive, airy quality confused Mr. Ziegfeld. He added toward the last a thunderous episode in slapstick and a beautiful ballet. The slapstick was funny and the ballet was a bore. The early episodes in the unadulterated Kummer quality made the show attractively successful...
...parade before the race, the French four-year-old seemed lacklustre; there was a negligence under his sleek grace; and he needed a touch of the whip to bring him up to the barrier-a touch that made him sulky. Jockey Kummer, instead of Jockey Haynes, had the leg up and rode an adequate race except for that one rash touch. Away they went-a flash of silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise...