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...there is one weak spot it is concerned with comedy. James Barton, Ray Dooley, and Andrew Toombes have a few magnificently excruciating moments and far too few. Mr. Barton's dancing again proves that he has no rival for laughter below the knees. Greta Nissen, lured back from the movies, does a neat pantomime. The chorus is traditionally comely. In fact nearly everything about the show is excellent, except its massive length and breadth. Perhaps banting would help...
...Commandments. It is in the same mood-Bible teaching all tangled up with a modern allegory. But it somehow seems hollow, even beside that garish venture. The story of the Prodigal Son is the specific parable employed. The characters are chiefly impersonated by William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen. There is plenty of sex and a practically uninterrupted killing of the fatted calf. The Wanderer will probably be popular...
Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...
Roland Young as the murderer-com-poser rides easily through the play, with delightful overtones of comedy, like plucked strings. Kay Johnson (girl-across-the-hall) and the rest of the well-matched company are capital, particularly the lovely Grethe Ruzt-Nissen in a dance pantomime to Deems Taylor's bright, soap-bubble music. In a smoothly varied performance Woodman Thompson's staccato, expressionistic sets behave better than in Roger Bloomer. (TIME, March...
...Page of Andover Academy, Dr. A. E. Garland of Boston Y. M. C. A., O. G. Hebbert of Providence Y. M. C. A., G. Hoffman of Boston Y. M. C. U., W. C. Towne of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E. A. Heers of Boston Turn Verein and H. Nissen of Roxbury Turn Verein...