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...brain is assumed to be. His body is brought in on a stretcher by the police-as an unexpected appetizer to a dinner party. Thus is the play put out of its misery. The Telegram and Evening Mail: "A weak, illogical concoction, marred by much gushing sentimentality." Alexander Woollcott: "An innocent, artless drama . . . invested with the flavor of private theatricals." New York Evening Post: "Miss Bertha Broad's performance of the heroine was fairly competent, but in no way remarkable." The New York Times: "Not sufficiently well characterized and well written to be important or very convincing...
Alexander Woollcott: "Mistinguett . . . that grand old lady of the Paris music halls . . . made an uneventful revue interesting...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
Alexander Woollcott: "The pronounced theatricality of this slightly medicinal romance was underscored heavily by the ornate and splendacious acting to which Lionel Atwill has become progressively addicted. . . But there was Katherine Cornell . . . to alleviate the distresses of an otherwise disturbing evening...
...other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite the unkindest paragraph of the year is credited to Frederick Donaghey...