Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COUNT BRUGA - Ben Hecht- Boni & Liveright ($2). Author Hecht is a rowdy. Often he is also a wit; sometimes, a philosopher. He has lavished all three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...
...English widow whom he has never seen. Through the vagaries of an old man's will this marriage will net them jointly $3,750,000. The widow objects to being married for money, disguises herself as her own parlor maid and wins the rude invader by her wit and charm...
That is to say that wit and charm were the playwright's intent. Actually, he did not charge his manuscript with an overabundance of either. The performances of Beatrice Hendricks and Curtis Cooksey were fairly helpful...
Unveiled is used advisedly. Five years ago this entertainment would have been called cruelly iniquitous. Intimate visions of anatomy and ribaldry of wit are often apparent. Yet the display is a study in hygiene in comparison to a variety of Broadway shows. Mr. White had so much entertainment that he could apply temptation as a background. Other producers prefer to focus on it, and play it as their highest card...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST?Oscar Wilde's wit in agile and incisive revival...