Word: simonetta
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...tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta, the orphan waif brought up by Flik, enters the office. A vacation, strolling through the nearby countryside, is decided upon then and there by the three, and Luigi's latest adventure in love has begun...
...second act, laid in Simonetta's dressing room, the play rises to its height. Grown up in the theatre, trained by Tito, the little singer has become the darling of Rome, sharing the applause with the great clown himself. Happy once more, proud of her success, Tito feels that at last his love can be declared. But on that vacation ramble things have happened and Simonetta's eyes and heart are now another's. When Tito sees the string of pearls that Luigi has sent, his tortured anger in all its horror returns and, cursing the moment when they...
...Simonetta comes and offers to be his wife, denying her love for Luigi. Tito knows better, and, after her departure, writes to tell her that she is free, and then in company with Flok, his partner, turns toward Monte Carlo for a holiday of gayety and dissipation...
Theatric though it was, the first ending was infinitely preferable to this, and it gave Mr. Barrymore a glorious opportunity with which he did wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...
...Simonetta is the specific for them both. In the second act she succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...