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...played by attractive Beatrice Pearson) is understandable and fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...
Another of these encounters that seem on the pages of the record book to be going out of their way to spoil something was the one that officially opened the new Bowl. 1914 was the year; the score: Harvard 36, Yale 0. Just to prove that it wasn't a freak, the Crimson made it 41 to 0 the following year...
Although Moss Hart's direction is generally tasteful, he has his actors degenerate into over-emotional climaxes that spoil much of the last act. In spire of all this "The Secret Room" is steadily interesting and the very neat final curtain has some of the quality of a last minute winning touchdown...
...melodrama alone does not spoil Deep Are the Roots. The play takes on too much and roves too widely. The sharp, immediate problem of the returning Ne gro soldier gradually becomes blurred by almost all the chronic interracial conflicts of the South, including the last one likely to prove dangerous, intermarriage...
...Scout can spoil his scoutmaster's day is to break out with a rash of poison ivy. Last week Scoutmaster F. W. James of Belleville, NJ. told the New York Times how he had met this crisis some 200 times in 26 years. He applies a wet dressing of aluminum acetate solution (a common, harmless astringent) for about ten minutes, daubs on more when itching returns. He said that most new cases clear overnight, most old ones in a few days...