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...Climax. Seventeen years ago this play was given to Manhattan and seemed to please. As resuscitated to amuse the captious and discerning playgoer of the present, it seems simply another revival. In this season, after about 30 of them, revivals have become a drug on the Manhattan market...
...circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there are not ten lines which Mr. and Mrs. Playgoer can quote without being suspected of resurrecting Wilde...
...Made for Love" and leave "The Red Kimono" (Is that the way you spell "Kimono"?) discreetly in the background. Discussing even this one, it will be necessary to tread cautiously. It would be easy to get unpleasant, and that wouldn't do at all because just now the Playgoer editor is conducting a campaign to be as nice as possible to everybody and try to remove this department's reputation for cynicism and general all-round bad temper...
There appeared, too, two departments. "The CRIMSON Playgoer" and "The CRIMSON Bookshelf." Last year special editors were assigned to cover these fields, and the "Bookshelf" which has originally been a column in the paper, became a monthly tabloid supplement.The "Sanctum" at the Crimson Building...
...wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer's experience...