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...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...
...Unguarded Hour. If you have forgotten what Milton Sills looks like, wait patiently at this one and you can find out. He strolls in very late as that fabulous creature, an ascetic Italian duke. But his arrival does little to help the piece, which is melo-amorous studio stuff and none too clever at that. Doris Kenyon is present as a somewhat simpering U. S. jazzabel out on an ultimately successful coronet hunt. The header (out of a window) that wicked Count Stelio (Charles Beyer) takes is alleged actually to have dislocated the actor's neck...
...Came Back. Patrons of the high blood pressure drama will recall this melo-sample of a few years back. The hero slides down the widely advertised trough of iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting...
...Boston Stock Company is playing a most excellent piece this week. "Madeline and the Movies" is a melo-farce with dream action,--that is, the person who looks as if he might go to sleep in the first scene really does and imagines all sorts of things about the other characters. Often as this has been done in the movies, we can remember no like plot on the stage. The double drama of the main action; the suspense, the laugh, the further development that brings more suspense, then more laughter, is admirably managed.---Well, George M. Cohan wrote...
...Significance. A solid, truthful portrayal of American life in a town that is neither Gopher Prarie nor Zenith but just as typical as either? written without shrieking or melo-dramatics?native as Dakota wheat...