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Therefore the playgoer nourished on the realism toward which our better Broadway tendencies have turned will lack sympathy for Mme. Simone. She will bewilder him a little and probably annoy him. Only if he concedes the virtue of her schooling will he enjoy the lessons she has learned so well. Of France and the Frenchman's Theatre she is a cardinal example. As such she will compel intelligent attention...
Those who, like the guileless Playgoer, go to "Wang" knowing nothing more about it than its percussive name, will find themselves in the midst of the creditor-dodging adventures of the wily but impecunious Regent of Siam. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that the play contains nothing which will cause patriotic Siamese at Harvard to write indignant letters to the CRIMSON. A delightfully impossible potentate is pursued through two acts by mysterious, impossible emissaries of the King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left...
Hopper holds his audiences in a way that is given only to geniuses. Which is to say that there are a great many people, and the Playgoer is one of them, who would prefer a play that tastes like day before yesterday's milk, provided De Wolf Hopper is in it, to the latest "Hit from Broadway". But it is speaking disrespectfully of things venerable to put "Wang" in such a class. In spite of its one-cylinder action its songs are often charming. And he would be a critical man who would not consider an evening well spent just...
Alexander Woollcott: "To the cautious playgoer craving advice as to whether he ought to put it on his list, one can only say that it wouldn't hurt him any and that he might find it quite entertaining...
...wants not only Mr. Paradee, but Mr. Valentine besides. She also craves attention, and having thus three weak spots, she falls an easy prey to Rose Briar, who has only one. Nevertheless, the salvoes of baby-talk that passed between them and their several male satellites almost finished the Playgoer, and if Miss Bushnell had not looked perfectly charming, and Mr. Mark Kent, as Mr. Valentine, been entirely delightful, he might have been completely overcome...