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Word: neroni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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