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...play opens in a sanitarium. Clown Tito (Barrymore) is seeking a specific for his melancholy malady of love which causes him to weep at the most minute excuse. Luigi (Ian Keith) is in the same consultation room suffering from an opposite affliction, occasioned by his excesses. He laughs ceaselessly, senselessly...
...large news of a Norma Talmadge picture should concern Norma Talmadge. Accordingly?she is exceedingly beautiful and a moderately good actress. She can command and she can weep. She has a large constituency. For them it may be said that in Ashes of Vengeance she is a little better than usual...
...MacManamy makes a rather appealing heroine and is especially good when called upon by the author for tears. Since he requires her to weep fairly consistently through the last three acts she has a rather successful evening. Not since Rain has such an aqueous deluge, been the arresting feature of the action...
...great patriotic principle of hatred of all Britishers, so dear to Mayor Hylan's educational heart, flourish under a system of international textbooks in history? What kind of hundred-per-centism could be taught in schools which looked to a world peace through understanding? Commissioner Hirshfield may well weep as he calls upon his Puritan ancestors to witness this triumph of radical propaganda...
...partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart...