Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claiming he had not known any Japanese troops were trespassing on U. S.-guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
...German girl, just purchased by Mme Zak. Painted in monotones of grey, tan and pink, in a style heavily reminiscent of Marie Laurencin and spiced with Degas and Renoir, were pictures in a musicomedy adaptation of 1900 costumes: drinking at cafes, riding on merry-go-rounds, many another simplified scene. Almost immediately the artist, 26-year-old, blonde Suzanne Eisendieck, became a ward of the Leicester Galleries, and a story straight out of La Vie de Boheme turned toward a happy ending...
...Wynn comes on. wringing his hands as if he thought man would be better off without them. Like Chaplin, he has always been a little fellow, lost in an insane world of slickers. In that role he is both funny and sympathetic and never better than in the scene where he runs to a park bench to rest and read only to be badgered and bullied by some extraordinary performing dogs...
...father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part of the playwright and his actors...
Even Miss Claire's fashionable audience gave up giggling during the second act and sat back to chat in peace. Broadway connoisseurs were waiting for the big actress scene that would explain why she had chosen the play. The scene never came...