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...Country Wife lasted a grand total of three hours and 20 minutes last night, incredible though it may seem. The wonder of it is, I suppose, that the show wasn't terribly boring--for Restoration comedy, even at a more rational length, is usually something less than a laff riot. To its great credit, the Winthrop House production managed to be entertaining, although there were some pretty desperate moments in the fifth...
Auspitz: Ah. After all those dreary British comedies and Hollywood laff riots, the real thing is here at last: Gaelic Wit. Ho. ho: Victor fell out of bed again...
...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...
...that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes are announced so carefully, it is hard not to feel short-changed at the realization that The Folding Green makes no more meaningful a statement than the merest commercial laff-riot--especially since a laff-riot...
Janus, the latest laff riot that Broadway has farmed out to the provinces, is making an unsteady last stand at the Plymouth before it is consigned to the back pages of high school drama catalogs...