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tty George jean Nathan
Decorations by Wynn
time to pave the way for the more or less happy ending. There are instances of good writing in the Dane opus, but the whole business is too stale to pop present-day interest. What interest attaches to the hoopdedoodle centres in Katharine Cornell's excellent performance of the leading role. The rest, while excessively noisy, is silence.
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iTiRANDELLO and Mah Jong are the two leading New York fads up to the time of going to press. Doubtless by the time the ink is dry, both will be in the discard and succeeded by the latest Serbian dramatist and strip poker. But as I write, Pirandello is the leading favorite of the local intellectual petting parties. The natives are doing everything to Pirandello, in fact, but understanding him. A He is hailed as the greatest dramatic genius of the day, and is being given
The Miracle is the most thoroughly beautiful spectacle that the American theatre has known .
The Show-Off .is one of the most perfectly recognizable portraits in the album of native drama.
Mr. Pitt as a play has no more shading than, the Arizona desert.
The Goose Hangs High is another one of those plays in which a flock of ingenues and juveniles sass the older actors who play the roles of their parents.
you already know. Of his "Henry IV," more recently produced under the title "The Living Mask," it may be said, as I once observed of a play of Zoe Akins, that it is a stagestruck novelette. For all its very interesting and intelligently manoeuvered theme, it is as lacking in theatrical and dramatic properties as an essay by Dr. Jacques Loeb. The considerable theatrical to-do that has been made over it in certain quarters may be laid to the intellectual pushing that is so characteristic a part of the New York stockbroker kultur. Arnold Korff, who is the star of the piece, had such a blustering cold on the night I reviewed the performance that he might better have been cast for the snowstorm in "Way Down East."
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receptions by Otto Kahn, dinners by the American Society of Stamp Collectors, balls by the Elks and embroidered handkerchiefs by the sweet ones of the Junior League. His plays are being put on by his fellow Italian, the Signor Brocco Pembertoni, at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre; everybody is dolling up in evening clothes for the occasion; the ushers have temporarily stopped chewing gum in honor of the great event; and even the actors have magnanimously lent their share to the festivities by learning some of the lines.
Of Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author,"
J'nce in a while I hear it said of me that I talk about everything concerned with a play but the play itself. In other words, that my method of criticism often neglects to tell my flock exactly what the play I am eloquently writing of is about. So that there may be no complaint on this score in the instance of "Gypsy Jim," by the Messrs. Hammerstein and Gropper, let me change my customary tactics — and see how you like it. "Gypsy Jim," therefore, is about a romantic millionaire who dresses himself up like a Webster Hall ball and in this guise prowls around the country on a Pollyanna mission of cheer. Accompanied by the Knickerbocker Grill string quartette that plays sad music {Continued on Page 94)
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