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Heavy Traffic. Many are the theatregoers who demand, for their lightest entertainment, an exposition, bright with epigrams, not of mirthful innocence but of adultery. Thus the theme of Arthur Richman's ill-illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private...
...Arthur Richman's comedy is ill-illumined insomuch as it fails to provide the electric brilliance of witty, speeches which must accompany such efforts. Its sophisticated persons light their cigarets with the elan that should precede an epigram; then they blow the smoke out as if they were at home. The company is distinguished: A. E. Matthews, the hero of a thousand stage affairs, is the detective who telephones to the cuckold, assuring him that in a week at latest he will have grounds for a New York State divorce. The cavorting adulteress is Mary Boland...
...will not be responsible for any debts incurred by my wife, Madeleine Marshall Richman, as she has left my bed and board...
...Arthur Richman, Manhattan playwright, married Madeleine Marshall, U. S. actress, three years ago, in London after she had appeared in his play Ambush, Playwright Richman last month completed The Hungry Wife, last week inserted this public notice in Manhattan newspapers. A similar notice was inserted in London papers by Lord Ashley, heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His wife (Sylvia Hawkes) was also an actress...
...first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person. Willie and Eugene Howard...