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LAST CALL FOR RABBITS by George Jean Nathan again [ find m NCE a ‘ el teh QO Either Tam erazy or all my colleagues are. sion Perey Hammond seems to be all, for on this uffering from the vilment elf te he Maybe we'll have to get hold of tw my quandary, try re out whether PE sh the summer I spend 1 Bloom ingdale instead of in Europe, as Thad plant is Rachel Crothers’ new play, “Expl ing Willie.” My brother professors say that it is) the greatest play written in’ English Sixteenth Century. Ef since the it is anything like that, [beseech vou to begin serving me live rabbits immediately for breakfast, and dinner. lunch True enough, Edo not entirely despair of my sanity when T re- call that, this season, my col ues hailed The The Show- very int Joan” smory is The Nerv- ek” as the t plays written glish since the fteenth but Tam a trifle wor- Century, ried just’ the same. For on this occasion loesn’t seem to ny doubt what- soever in) my col- leagues’ minds. They make the — asserti flatly, unequives ly. And I feel that Perey Hammond and I something about it right’ away. If we don't, people will be- ought to do gin to look at us oddly out of the pass us on the st It is, however, thing seems to 1 frores. ‘They are as pe a very great masterpiece Here, for « into the ri rple, we ha “Gladys dresses awfully loud.” “Well, you see, dearie, her husband is very deaf.” all sel te Dite rabbit Well. not whatever it is. rabbits. which has kept me awake for the last few nights rners of their eves as they ‘Land significantly tap their forcheads. a bit difficult to know just what to do. ttled for once and that this sso many Wassermann reac the M. le Broun throwing his hat nd declaring, without the slightest semblance of I by our critical con- xpressing Willie” is a quiver in hi ee moof the purest ray. Here, again, we have the M. de leott letting out various cheers de lure and windi that itis “heyend praise” which, taking inte con on any hymns, would seem to indicate Uhat it is thus consid superior to our Lord God Almighty. And here. still agd we have the M, Corbin so excited over number of devotional the overwhelming genins of the exhibit that he can hardly himself. I these phrases contain quote and sentences from his panegyrie: A very wonderful thing with seareely a prece dentin this or any season; A perfect conjunction of play- writing, acting that unfolded itself as if by miracle”; “A triumph"; “Phe sal- took the storm”; tion of The touch of genius”; “Pro- found and convine- As well try to describe the lies of wit audience by varie- gated, gay and ex- quisite coloring of a butterfly’s wing”: “No one but Miss Crothers could express it in the theater so subtly, so unmistak- ably, with such rap- ture of humor and “Miss om- plished the miracle”; “A blaze of glory . On second thought. IT begin to think that there prob- ably are not cnough rabbits in the country to take care of Perey and myself. They'll doubtless have to he- gin importing them when we get started. For to f ina measure and to me in a somewhat greater measu Miss Crothers’ play is simply a mildly amusing little comedy, not tenderness’; Crothers a rticulated, that, though it contains some fairly il, is in the main and at best second-rate stuff It is seldom aught but obvious. although, true enough, admin staging and competent some acting serve frequently to (Continued on page 31) ‘comicbooks.com