Word: mischiefism
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...With a Load of Mischief," the American Theatre Society's present offering at the Plymouth Theatre, finds Jane Cowl rather desperately alone in an undeniably difficult play. "The Road to Rome" had set her completely at case; members of the audience went away believing that some of her lines had been spoken extemporaneously; and in Margaret Ayer Barnes' "Jenny," she had the excellent support of Sir Guy Standing. "The Man With a Load of Mischief," however, is neither facile, nor Miss Cowl's supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that...
...difficult for a play that is to be acted rather than read. It gives the actors few opportunities for easily won applause. Despite the many curtain calls, the company now at the Plymouth cannot be said to have realized the possibilities of "The Man With a Load of Mischief" in anything like its entirety...
...BLACK MISCHIEF - Evelyn Waugh- Farrar & Rinehart...
...Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the subject of Negro majesty, does it up black & blue in true Waugh style...
...must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally, but an eye of dull yellow when it throws...