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Napoleon. Biographers are at 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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