Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, Molnar. He has dramatized the insanity of a young girl gone mad from unrequited love. He has, with the complete coöperation of the actor currently concerned, made her lover so grossly unattractive that she seems a fool to tolerate him, much less dive in the Danube on rejection. Subsequently she thinks herself an angel, wears feather wings and drinks glasses of milk at stated intervals...
...Jean Marie" is a tragedy, very much like Ternyson's "Enoch Arden", "Los Deux Timides" or "The Two Bashful Ores" is a comedy whose characters are a villain, a bashful father, a loving daughter and a bashful lover. It ends happily, "Le Bonhomme Jadis" tells how old Jalis again becomes young in the love of a young couple. These three plays will b e presented once, at the Wednesday matinee...
...might sharpen his teeth and whet his claws. With this malign purpose in mind. "The Cat and the Canary" was about the worst choice he could have made. But before going on, it must be thoroughly understood that household pets have nothing to do with this show: any animal lover who goes to see his favorites perform is certain to be surprised, although hardly disappointed...
...charged it would be hard to spoil the effect. All one has to do is to be frightened at the right places. Nevertheless, Miriam Doyle is pleasing as the courageous and attractive young heiress; and Walter Regan, who has a fairly difficult part as the wavering, somewhat ridiculous schoolboy lover of Miss West, and the official humorist, is one of the outstanding players. As Cousin Sue, who feels "in duty bound" to tell everything she knows in a rather disagreeable fashion, Florence Huntington is so convincing that one hesitates to praise her; her part seems too natural to be acting...
...Lesson in Love. Captain Briquette (William Faversham) was a candid Frenchman. He believed in saying "stomach" right out in company and disapproved of Beatrice Audley (Emily Stevens) when she gave a former friend the cold English eye just because the friend had eloped to Kamchatka with a bachelor lover. So he decided to teach Beatrice a lesson in love-and proved such an interesting teacher that Beatrice was all ready to depart with him unmarried, when he finally produced a license, remarking that he had really meant to marry her all the while and had just wanted to improve...