Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heywood Broun in the New York Telegram: "I can think of nothing in several seasons which has moved me so much. . . . If you plan to see only one play this year go to Berkeley Square. If your budget provides two evenings in the theatre see it twice...
Broken Dishes. Playwright Martin Flavin is lucky in the men chosen to play his heroes. His plays do not need bolstering, but The Criminal Code, one of the most pungent of the season's hits, is undeniably better for the presence of the virtuoso Arthur Byron, and Broken Dishes would certainly suffer by the removal of Donald Meek. It is the venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry...
...Donald Meek, managing to strike new and sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...
Make Me Know It. This is a melodrama acted by Negroes, all of them with natural vigor, some with skill. But vigor and skill alike are purposeless in a banal, disorganized play which depends for impetus on such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...
White Flame. The hapless heroine of this play pines for years while the man whom she loves has a ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...