Word: villianous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fanny. The many virtues of Fannie Brice, comedienne, are lost to Fannie Brice, emotional actress. Perhaps it is the fault of the play, a concoction of sugar and tears drained by three of its characters, an old philanthropist, a grateful beneficiary, a swindling villian. Miss Brice looks much, much better in revue skits, even if David Belasco did stage this play...
...very real plot, involving a spy, and a beautiful woman suspected of being a spy, and an undergraduate who has fall-on in love with an actress (proving that this is an old story after all.) At times, your correspondent was actually ready to throw eggs at the wicked villian. Captain Higbee...
...name might suggest. For the most half romanticist feels the need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...
Once I sat in the gallery while a great tragedy was being performed. A shabbily dressed man next to me was carried away with the play to such an extent that when the villian raised his dagger, he cried "Look out." That was the triumph of illusion--and the theatre. Perhaps a mortgage hovered over that man's house, but for two hours he laughed and cried. He had touched the grand fact of human life, that at bottom...
...acting first honors go to Mr. Gilbert in the role of the crook. It was not an easy part to handle, and he did it well. Mr. Kent and Mr. Bosworth, as the priest and the young lover, were very satisfactory. The part of the villian handicapped Mr. Charlton Miss Miller outshone the others as the emotional Betty Eustis, and entered freely into her character. The play is not the best thing that the St. James has shown, but it is far from being the worst