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...waters. Wiser than her generation, she has taken not the whole U. S. to be her province but only her own small town of Portage, Wis. There, like Candide, she cultivates her literary garden, is content with small, home-grown blooms. Older and gentler than when she wrote Miss Lulu Bett, she still likes to tell a long story briefly, intensively, in quiet words...
...years of it she went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When she married, about five years ago, she took a Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker-manufacturer. The U. S. is conscious of her chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette...
...Miss Lulu Bett comes out all right in the end. As the play goes rollicking along, one wonders just what that demon Fate has in store for her, but she forgives and they all live happily ever after. Miss Lulu Bett is the heroine, if such there are in this modern age, of an amusing comedy being shown this week at the Peabody Playhouse, with the Stagers in charge of festivities. The play is taken from a novel of the same name by Zona Gale...
...beauty of "Miss Lulu Bett" lies not in the plot, which is perhaps a bit obvious at times, but in the superb characterization of Middle-Western family life, admirably carried out by an able cast. Francis G. Cleveland, as the dentist who loves nothing better than to read the evening paper undisturbed and to rule his family with an iron hand, plays his part capably. So also does Marjorie Holman, as the lady of the household who thinks entirely in terms of what the neighbors will think about this and that. The whole cast, in fact; is well chosen...
...Miss Lulu Bett" affords a fair enough evening's entertainment and is just the thing to keep one's mind off those greasy books...