Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice murders Lambertier; Valerie admits the adultery which she has lied about before and committed for reasons which are the weakest element in the play. Maurice then gives himself up to the police to save an innocent man from execution. Valerie, by explaining the true circumstances, will save her husband...
Animal Crackers. Zeppo Marx has good stage manners though he is otherwise without importance; Chico Marx plays the piano well and can, to some extent, imitate an Italian; Groucho Marx is garrulous and mad; but Harpo Marx has a wild and silent face, his desires are mysterious and he can play the harp. The four Marx brothers cavort together in Animal Crackers...
...arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians to applaud for five minutes after the first night curtain, aided in their bravos by seasoned play-goers who knew they had seen a good play...
...play is partly preachment but it is so exciting that even Otto Kahn, you may be certain, would wish to set his teeth in the ear of the suave, knavish judge and in that of the dirty district attorney. The minor parts are badly taken; but Charles Bickford, as the flaring Macready, Horace Braham, as the less truculent, beseeching Capraro, and Sylvia Sidney, as the well-gowned and eventually hysterical fiancee of the former make you, as one shrill memuer of the audience remarked, wish to "go to Boston and kill a few people...
Jealousy is played by a cast of two persons (Fay Bainter, John Halliday) and a telephone. Its one set is a neatly furnished studio; offstage noises are confined to round knocks upon a resonant downstairs door. Jealousy, which Eugene Walter derived from the French of Louis Verneuil, will be a popular play among little theatre addicts who have no cash...