Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...Love Duel. It would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...thus be legally married in Red Russia, why should they not be divorced there? Though no U. S. couple is known to have made the experiment, it was instructively performed last week by a Chilean, Señor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera. Smitten with love for one Martha Schmidt, his wife's sister, he sought a divorce in order to remarry...
...play is an excellent indication of the contents. In an attempted casualness Mr. Burke bandies words between his characters, these words having to do with the marital state and its attendant pitfalls. Somehow, the only relevant thing we can think of to sum the matter up is that "Young Love" was a much better piece. It was far less forced in its banter, had considerably more of a point, and had two good acts out of three instead of a mere...
...didn't see "Young Love" the chances are easily even that you will like the present offering. It does have its amusing moments. But if you did see the other comedy, you must go in a very open frame of mind...