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...exponent of the modern school, Truthan Consequences, who can be seen hanging by the neck until dead, or Georgia Spirituals, the "Banana Comedy" lacks that essence of quintessence necessary for any successful dramatic representation--sex. Who can see sex in a banana. No one. It is impossible. As Mr. Shubert said when I talked with him between the acts, "I have a quart...
...Paree. The Great Temptations, having been despatched to rake in provincial shekels, Gay Paree was unloaded at the Winter Garden, where smoking is permitted. The Shubert machine knows its business, knows what the Winter Garden public wants for $5.50. It offers well-drilled squads of girls in conscientious exercises. It' splashes the stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels against...
...straight "girl show," catering to the follies and foibles of tired business men, The Pearl Of Great Price might have come up to the best Shubert tradition. As a morality play, its sly emphasis upon the fleshly temptations, its substitution of "Mammy" sentimentality for virtue, its salacious exaltation of a physical technicality to the plane of spiritual value damn it. It is simply a huge hypocrisy parading under a thin veil of moral pretense...
Opening last week at the Majestic after long runs in New York, Chicago, and points west, Mr. Shubert once again displayed for conservative Boston an all too ripe review--the lines diluted, the cast watered, the costumes, after the first few scenes at least, padded. Even the actors and the chorus seemed to realize that they were in Boston, that laughs would come hard, and --"oh what...
...Baker towards the end of the show literally stood the audience on its collective heads. And the beauty of the whole thing is that it is not until five minutes have elapsed that one can be sure that he is not some fresh spectator who is taking the Shubert headliner for a ride...