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...well-written play, developing some exceedingly amusing situations. It is an old comedy, brought up to date by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes; but the fact that it happens to deal with gambling on a gold mine in the New York Stock Exchange and that the word "piker" seems to form a rather insufficent basis for its being advertised as "American...
...feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell nightmare, write the final chapter of a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, authentic tragedy...
...Times believing that it had sprung from the forehead of the News editor. The New Haven correspondent of the New York Times seized upon it and wired it to Manhattan. Thus it reached the individuals who function on the telegraph desk of the Times. They were interested. A very well-written little article. So that was what Yale thought of Harvard, of Princeton, of itself, eh? In the morning, readers...
...perhaps we are appearing less commendatory than we feel. There is much to amuse; well-written verse and doggerel sometimes. We didn't see the story about the man who took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know...
...Villard sees in Washington a great opportunity for " a weekly journal which can present interesting, well-written facts or accounts of the progress of Government...