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...WILLIAM CORBETT'S LETTER [March 12] IF LINDBERGH IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING FLYER THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WERE WRONG AND CORBETT'S SECOND AND PARTICULARLY THIRD PARAGRAPHS FAIRLY REEK WITH GOOD TASTE. AMONG MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE A PASSING INTEREST AND LITTLE ADMIRATION FOR OUR PRESIDENT BUT THEY ARE ALL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT COLONEL LINDBERGH. PERSONALITIES ARE STILL ODIOUS...
...four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed more futile than impressive...
...unusual shots, as that of the laborer removing his shirt, revealing a sinewy silver-sweated back, are beyond praise. But tedium reigns when too many impressionistic scenes of rushing water and driving storm appear. The sound effects are well executed: one can almost taste the cinders and smell the reek of the locomotive...
Playwright MacOwan's somewhat misapplied earnestness is ably abetted by Actor Banks, whose moral austerity and quirks of personality convincingly reek of heather. Actress Menken's husky voice has always been effective when sober things were being spoken; she still achieves miracles of makeup which make her seem almost beautiful. One of the season's most extraordinary moments occurs when, as a barefoot invalid, she extends her foot toward the audience and spreads and wiggles her toes with astounding flexibility...
...evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme of European tradition versus American vulgarity arouses one's latent chauvinism. The humorous possibilities of Solly Ward's malapropian speeches are done to death on his first appearance...