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...what it is. The author himself is characteristically vague about it. "For some a comedy" he says, one imagines with a roguish twinkle, "and for others a drama." Or, as Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled...
Said the Presbyterian before he began to weep: "He was the best educated man, the most progressive business man and the ideal Christian of our community...
...suspicious about my knowledge of this course in social sophistry or whatever they call it that I'm taking. And the first one I met, was Art Knott who was looking for the same stuff I was. So we found out that Mr. Rend 'Em and Weep or something satisfying like that was awaiting just such intelligence's as ours, and hurried thence. And there we found the only other gentleman in the course the rest are professionals with the "A" and "B" disease--and so the three of us settled into three hours of "grasping the fundamental facts." Well...
...Enemy. Of all the shrewd artificers of the Theatre there is none in this country superior to Channing Pollock. In The Fool he made a million dollars (for someone) and made a million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe...
...comedian, he admits that most humorous actors have a longing to appear in tragic roles. Mr. Hopper told the reporter that he had started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little touch of pathos...