Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger-generation pictures have come and gone, making money in the process, for one to complain viciously of this one. If you are of the people who have seen a flapper annoy her mother and finally marry the family chauffeur, or any of a dozen variations on the popular theme-if you have watched and liked it, you will approve The Best People...
...yourself you can read the title and figure out the theme. Waiters and grand duchesses are not normally companions. When they are you wonder why. Alfred Savoir attempts to answer the interrogation. Only in one act is his reply amusing...
...entirely innocent. There is a roaring clergyman to absorb many of the jabs of satire. A generally competent performance by a group of virtually unknown players helps considerably. The author, Lynn Starling, is a playwright of proven skill (Meet the Wife). It is unfortunate he selected such a tawdry theme...
...comedy some seasons ago called Why Marry and was applauded mightily. He followed it with one called Why Not, slipping a notch or two down in entertainment values. This, his third, is pretty definitely uninteresting despite his irresistible facility for smart dialog. He deals with the not particularly novel theme of a father and son in pursuit of the same lovely lady. She happens to be a lady not exactly young, nor too immaculate of reputation. Bruce McRae and Elizabeth Risdon contribute generously with deft performances...
...there you are. But, oh, yes, these is Bessie Love too, who does a very jazzy version of the Charleston, and Oscar Shaw whom we haven't seen since the failure of "One Kiss." The vaudeville is an inspiring but reasonably successful version of the melting pot theme. You've seen it all somewhere before...