Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less superlatively staged, the play might have seemed no more than sound and furies signifying nothing. But James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...
...gigantic and too inherently theatrical to fit the neat and flashing patterns of the stage. Napoleon's hundred days were too dramatic for the drama. Forgetting this, B. Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays nicely as Madame Walewska...
...Cherry Orchard. This, by all accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their...
...Smart Set. William Haines is always the play boy, the smart aleck-sometimes in baseball uniform (Slide, Kelly, Slide), sometimes in football paddings (Brown of Harvard), sometimes in the pants of a leather neck (Tell It To the Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable...
...Author. Poet and editor of the English quarterly, Poetry and the Play, Sydney Fowler Wright, has made a survey of contemporary poetry, and a translation of Dante's Inferno. His friends doubted his finding a publisher for Deluge. Modest, he first printed it at his own expense, and found immediate applause. Fifty three years old, he is father of nine children...