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GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE-A thin comedy of infelicity made to sit up and take nourishment by the staccato brilliance of Ina Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...comedy, like plucked strings. Kay Johnson (girl-across-the-hall) and the rest of the well-matched company are capital, particularly the lovely Grethe Ruzt-Nissen in a dance pantomime to Deems Taylor's bright, soap-bubble music. In a smoothly varied performance Woodman Thompson's staccato, expressionistic sets behave better than in Roger Bloomer. (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 25, 1924 | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...returned to Manhattan from San Francisco and is again becoming immersed in the lit-erary-social life of the metropolis. She is a very handsome woman, more striking than ever in a dark suit, a small dark hat, her pale yellow hair done close to her head, talking in staccato and determined tones-a remarkable woman in more ways than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Atherton | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Harvard prize play, seems not uninfluenced by the Cambridge atmosphere?exceedingly polite, witty, moderately well-dressed. Below this brilliantly prepared surface is a foundation theme of considerable consequence. Strongly in its favor is the symmetry of its construction?a virtue lacking in The Potters, a staccato satire on middle class husbands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...POTTERS-Staccato commentary on the kind of man George F. Babbitt might have been had he never made any money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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