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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two lines from the "Pursuit of Pamela", a sentimental farce (on the program they call it a comedy) now playing at the Copley give the gist of the plot. The Jewett Players are never quite so delightful as when that farce is tinged with a certain amount of real humor of line and situation, the production is sure to be excellent indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/26/1922 | See Source »

...Pusuit of Pamela", as has been more than suggested above is not comedy--the plot, the characters, the procedure are all too outrageous for that; but played as a tremendous joke with a little serio-comic sentimental trimming, it succeeds admirably. No-one could take the adventures of the unsophisticated young American girl, who leaves her aged husband five minutes after marrying him to chase around the world after a penniless Englishmen, too seriously. The rapid geographical movements of the characters--from Hawaii via Japan, China, the North Pole, and Russia to Canada--are in themselves too preposterous for anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/26/1922 | See Source »

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