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Honorable mentions went to Othon Friesz, France; Ambrose McEvoy, England; Vincenc Benes, Czechoslovakia; Savely Sorine, France...
...Potters by J. P. McEvoy...
...Potters. Though the word "boob" is rather an outworn colloquialism, it must be revived to designate the type lampooned by Playwright J. P. McEvoy. He has written a satire live with savage bristles, has hurled it full in the face of the great American boob...
...Copley Theatre on Monday night, for the first time in America, was presented Charles McEvoy's "The Likes of 'Er". The play is on the whole a simple and quite unaffected story arising from post-war conditions, a comedy that mixes pathos with humor. The plot concerns itself with Sally Winch waiting for the return of George Miles her sweetheart. Sally has other wooers, and these attempt to tell stories against Miles. But she refuses to believe them, even the one told by Miles' friend Cope, who is an artist in falsification, and who described Miles' condition because George...
...McEvoy has written two acts of true merit, and a third act of uncertain quality. Into his first two acts, he has deftly drawn characters and conditions, has advanced his story in terms of character, has well handled straightforward and honest speech. The beginning of the third act does not seem quite correct, nor in keeping with the rest of the play. The scene in which the unbearable Florrie first makes advances to George and then turns into a bull in a china shop, breaking handy glassware, regardless of Mr. Jewett's expenses when the play has finished...