Word: playgoer
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...Playgoer, contrary to his custom, reprints below parts of a very unusual criticism of stock-company work. Mr. Parker, the "H. T. P." of the Boston Transcript, is the critic. A company which can elicit such praise from "H. T. P." surely deserves double credit. The quotation follows...
...simply an unrecognized playfulness in the makeup of Boston's citizens, or whether it veers to the other extreme in the shape of a seriously perverted sense of humor, is hard to say. Whatever its excuse, it must be as irritating to the actors as it is to the playgoer who wants to get his money's worth of thrills, shudders, or sighs...
...Every playgoer has seen Mr. Hitchcock on the stage, and so his inimitable character impersonations hardly need be described. Miss Sanderson is scarcely less known to Stage devotees, and Mr. Huntley, though more unfamiliar, is equally successful in his role of a Britisher...
...required at least a surface knowledge of the Freudian explorations to write this play, and playgoers with a bit of that knowledge will have the time of their lives as it unfolds. It is true that the Freudian playgoer lies in wait for the slightest lurking excuse to descend into the sub-conscious--discovering clues and symptoms of which playwright, producer and players are blissfully unaware. He sees an inhibition at every turn, and with the slightest encouragement would talk about the Psycho-Anabasis of Xenophon. But "Mamma's Affair' really invites his special attention...
...that the miniature magaazine fad is still rampant. The little paper is a purely local affair with a considerable amount of purpose, if one may judge from the first number. Taverner, late of the Boston Post, is assisted by a Booktaster, a Story-teller, a Gossip, a Reformer, a Playgoer, and a Diletante. Beside these regular departments, Number One contains an article by Margaret Deland and poems by Louise Chandler Moulton and Marguerite Merington...