Word: show-off
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Playhouse 48th E. Broadway--Daisy Mayme. In this play, George Kelly has caught what Stark Young calls "the shino of life". It is the most real of the plays by the author of the "Show-Off" and "Craig's Wife...
...hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...
...doing so, he studied homely characters, setting them into homely situations, for the amusement of audiences that generally failed to appreciate the unobtrusive irony of the whole. His real genius, then as now, lay in a faculty for etching characters with acidic dialogue. The Torch Bearers, The Show-off Craig's Wife, have established him as playwright-director, have also established Rosalie Stewart, first to appreciate his genius, as one of Broadway's successful producers. Now Daisy Mayme, probably the playwright's best effort, has settled down to a successful Kelly...
...that M. Stokowski, in his desire to hide his orchestra for the music's sake, had inadvertently made himself a cynosure for all the extra attention he had hoped to gain for his music. Unkind critics even charged Conductor Stokowski with "childish display," with having contracted the David Belasco show-off virus...
...Tracy gives the best performance of his career as the show-off dedicated in spirit to a vaudeville dance at the Palace Theatre but delighted to serve in the McKeesport Opera House. Sylvia Field, late of The Little Spitfire, adorns the chorus as his honorably beloved, a good girl who "doesn't know her goulash." So vital is the background, so artfully sustained the suspense, that Broadway runs its entire length without one flagging moment...