Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...
...York Evening Post: "... amusing every minute . . . show is as good as ever arid that is saying a lot...
...lot of the anthologist is not a happy one", as Mr. Frank Shay assures us that it is not in his "Foreword" to the "Twenty Contemporary One Act Plays--American" he has recently edited, the lot of the reviewer of such a work is not the least bit happier. Not only does he strike the difficulty that persons seem to disagree more over the merits of a play than over those of any other from the writing, but also that of writing an adequate criticism of twenty one-act plays in less time and space than the reviewer can allow...
BENEDICT ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...
...Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well-cast and furnishes an innocuous evening's entertainment. Adapted from a novel, of W. J. Locke, it suffers the fate of most such adaptations. Alan Dale: "Involved and hopelessly tedious play." Kenneth Macgowan: "Some pleasant moments...