Word: types
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Said--and She Believed Him" is a long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...
...play is an unmusical comedy of the well-known wide open type, with people tearing about the stage uttering broad jokes in loud Broadway voices. It has no value, but, if you must laugh, go and see "He Said--And She Believed...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has asked for 10,000 men for the Naval Reserve, and as the type of duty is peculiarly suited to college men, a much larger number of volunteers from the University is needed...
...players of the Theatre Francais at the Copley Theatre. Of the three plays in their Boston repertory it is perhaps the least interesting, its predecessor "Sapho" being a classic of the theatre, and "La Rafale," which will be seen tomorrow evening, a capital melodrama of the efficient Bernstein type. Perhaps "Le Maitre de Forges" is considered a dramatic classic also in Paris. It is what the French understand by a comedy...
Miss Abarbanell, of "Madame Sherry" and "Merry Widow" fame, has the leading role and her work, after the first act, makes the evening more than satisfactory. She features in waltzes in a way that makes one long to be the leading man. Essentially a Latin type, Miss Abarbanell uses her voice in a most stirring manner and, as a Russian dancer, is true to form in carriage as well. She has many tricks of the eye, shoulders and head that seem almost even Spanish...