Word: langsner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is very little acting, it being mostly a matter of getting lines off. For this reason the only people deserving of mention are Mr. Jessel upon whom most of the play depends and Clara Langsner as his mother, who does more than just go through the paces...
...first scene is in the Manhattan home of the Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into...
...Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household. As diversified Jewish types, Actors Sam Mann, Clara Langsner, Muni Wisenfrend, and Luther Adler write whole life histories into feeble, broken lines, and it is in their creative work that the play's chief virtue lies...