Word: raina
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
Little can be said of the play that has not been said before. The first act drages a bit at times, but luring the dialogues between Raina and Bluntschli it is thoroughly absorbing. The second act, (with the entrance of that at living bassoon or kettle drum. Ralph Robert as Major Patkoff) becomes brisk, and at times almost beisterous. The third act continues in this vein and ends with everyone happily set and everybody completely exposed "Guy Phillips, not seem to these shores since 1914, was perfectly adapted to the part of Captain, Bluntschli, or I should say, adapted himself...