Word: magically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with sardonic, Continental gleams, and a tingling realization that an amorous adventure can be masked by a stuffy, comatose countryside. Emily Stevens brings out admirably the incisive spirit of the careering city woman. But it is Morgan Farley who outgrows his juvenile skin in youth's encounter with matronly magic. He gives a deft and sensitive picture of the lad who discovers that love has its morning-after taste also. William Ingersoll and Josephine Hull (as his parents) and Orlando Daly and Helen Westley give veracious performances in an engaging production that shows the Theatre Guild on a picnic...
...plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan, and-they have an "affair...
Then the orchestra began to tune up, just as if it were talking over the pieces it was to play, as children sometimes talk all together, at recess. Two taps, and Mr. Schelling began to wave his magic baton. First they played Chopin's A Major Polonaise, and you could imagine people dancing to it. Then they played Bach's beautiful Air for G String, and Scipione Guidi, concert master, showed what rich tones could come from a violin...
...actual performance The Miracle transcended every printed promise. The theatre had been transformed into the gloomy fastnesses of a medieval cathedral. Into this magic nave and choir, Max Reinhardt has infused the life of other centuries...
...Carrillo's appearance alters the domestic complexion immediately. Obedient to his magic wand, publishers, clients, manufacturers and a heretofore secret daughter of the buried brother flood the family. Meanwhile, gypsy music off stage soothes the spectators into the requisite romantic mood. Finally Mr. Carrillo discards his gypsy habiliments and stands, a mere millionaire, suitable suitor for the daughter of any family...