Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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The play, which has been an enormous success in London, is crude stuff, but not without its diverting boob moments. A good-natured melodrama, one must go to it — if one goes at all — in a spirit of excessive good nature. In a spirit, indeed, so good natured as to be almost idiotic. Otherwise one will miss many of what may be called the fine points. Such plays are not for critics, but they often amuse critics none the less, as a circus sideshow amuses a logician or a hooch dance a minister of the gospel. I shall not tell you the plot of the piece, since if I were to do so you might accuse me of trying to be facetious. Richard Bennett negotiates so many monkeyshines in the acting of the central role that it is at times almost impossible to make out precisely what he is driving at in the way of characterization. The woman, Miss Florence Eldridge and Miss Kathleen MacDonell, are very much better, although the latter is too mature for the part assigned to her. L, Miss Vollmer's One Mood Play ula Vollmer is a young playwright of considerable talent who persists in viewing the folk whom she writes about with the eyes of a sinister undertaker. She cannot see the flowers for the graves. She sees her characters in one mood only, and as a result her plays are one-mood plays, and monotonous. In Sun Up, her first effort, this was less noticeable, however, than in The Shame Woman, her second. The Shame Woman is a poor play compared with Sun Up, though it has flashes of unmistakable quality. It grinds out in dirge-like tones a tale of seduction laid in the California mountains. It has all the aspects of a prolonged moan. I defer to Miss Vollmer's knowledge of the North Carolina mountaineers — I have never been in North Carolina and, if God is good to me, I hope I never shall be — but I still privilege myself a suspicion that they are not the many embodied ululations and grunts that Miss Vollmer makes them out to be. I do not, obviously, insist that Miss Vollmer arbitrarily bring humor into her play — I leave such insistence to certain of my colleagues — but I wish that she might at least omit a few of the lamentations. These lamentations, after an hour or so, become self-satiric. The staging of the play, by Gustav Blum, is in the true honorary pall-bearer style. Soft Pedalling the Grand Guignol The attempt to transplant the Grand Guignol to American soil has been marked — at least up to the time I write — by a curiously befuddled theory on the part of the persons responsible for the troupe's importation. These persons, fearful of American morality, have put down the soft pedal so hard on the Guignol's naughtiness, and on its .horrors no less, that what — up to the time of writing — has been . revealed on the local shore is decidedly weak tea. To bring over a theatre notorious for its shocks and its deviltries, to make a bid for American patronage, and then carefully to delete all the shocks and deviltries is something very much like bringing over a sensational nautch dancer, advertising her anatomical genius far and wide, and then making her do a waltz. Properly managed, the Guignol might have created a considerable stir over here. I fear, however, that unless the management turns turtle in its policy of timidity forthwith, all that the Guignol will create will be the impression of a steer. Windows Well Modulated But Uneven G alsworthy's Windows provides an interesting evening less because of the play itself than because of Galsworthy. A play by Galsworthy may not be a good play, but it is generally certain to be one that one can listen to without feeling— as one so often feels on Broadway — like throwing a cuspidor at the head of the author. When a gentleman of letters like Galsworthy writes even a poor play, that