Word: marcin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This great obstacle of stock acting was for the most part easily handled by the Copley players in last nights production of "Three Live Ghosts", a farce comedy for the writing of which Max Marcin and Frederic Isham collaborated...
Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...Marcin, co-author with Guy Bolton, has given his handwork a first class production. The single set in which the action takes place, is excellently designed, and well executed. The acting is even and not in the least forced or conventional; the absence of a "star" has led Mr. Marcin to put several of the parts into the hands of capable farceux. Mr. Hawley's "Jerry Hammond" bordered on the stereotyped, but Jack Raffael, as a slightly inebriated bank director, was very careful not to overdo his part. Miss Risdon, in the role of "Mrs Knowles" gave some fine examples...
...House of Glass" by Max Marcin is at the St. James this week. It is a play that moves along easily enough, with the convict problem and the give-him-another-chance idea as motivators. Needless to say the problem it not solved; it never is. Nevertheless it is a good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater...