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...Little Spitfire. Little originality has beamed along the Rialto so far this season. Perhaps wary producers insist upon tried successes of former seasons, revamped and relabeled. The Little Spitfire is just another one of those Irene formula shows, with a working girl marrying into Southampton. Customary society crooks complicate matters before the dowager accepts her daughter-in-law. In all fairness, a good cast does almost make a play out of this. As the titular heroine, Sylvia Field spits and flares conscientiously and with charm. Possible success of the show, however, if any, will redound mainly to the credit...
...claim one more victory" and gave the following general comment on the performance: "More and more do college theatrical productions approximate the Broadway standard, and the annual show of the Hasty Pudding Club, called "It's Only Natural", which was given at the Plaza last night, approximated the Rialto brand of musical comedy so closely that it would be hard for even that expert, the tired business man, to tell the difference...
...impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...
Richard Kean, in excerpts from famous plays, gave impersonations of richard Mansfield, as Shylock, in the Rialto scene from the "Merchant of Venice", and John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and then gave his own act as "Peter and Miser." Although the scenes were well done they lacked completeness and the necessary accompanying atmosphere to give satisfaction...
Many a time and oft in the Rialto and the Rivoli have we sat and wondered why the Pioneers of 47 and the Workshop had never been disputed in their dramatic sphere of influence in Cantabrigia. At last the money-changers of the Rialto are to come to our relief and change our dollar bills into half-dollars and rain-checks, and when the student of Philosophy is perplexed in the future with the problem "Why change your wife?" he can solve this problem without the help of any Widow, by sitting in at the Harvard Square student's latest...