Word: milgrim
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...their worst when they write about men whose deeds are too gigantic and too inherently theatrical to fit the neat and flashing patterns of the stage. Napoleon's hundred days were too dramatic for the drama. Forgetting this, B. Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays nicely as Madame Walewska...
...Milgrim's Progress is obviously aimed at the immense population which has reacted so energetically to the racial humors of Abie's Irish Rose. It is the story of a Jewish family which has prospered and come to live luxuriously in the city. Poor old papa is disconsolate among the steam heating and elevators. Finally they return to rural quietude. Louis Mann plays papa with explosive and characteristic ingenuity...