Word: spun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Circle may not elect to attend "The Very Idea" for its mid-winter theatre party, but that's not saying it's an improper show. Vicarious parentage is ordinarily not an appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...
Nowadays the plot of a musical comedy is hard beset by two perils: it is either spun out from one idea, which gets rather frayed toward the end, or is pared down to the quick from the story of the original. This latter is evidently the case with "The Man from Cook's." But though the piece does fall rather weakly into the position of a showcase for gems of song, its framework is given as high a polish as it can stand in the elaborate production of Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger, and it is refreshingly sweet and clean after...