Judge — March 28, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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crooning a sweet melody to her babe, temperamentally kicking her maid in the rearo, and otherwise conduct- ing herself after the accepted formula of the dramatized actress, Ido not know that all of these incidents are present in “Starlight,” as I didn’t | hang around to see the finish; but most of them—and all of the others like them—are in it unless I am losing my world-wide reputation as a guesser. Doris Keane is the star of the gala occasion. tcHEL Avctam,” which the Provincetowners are offering down in their alcove in McDougall | street, is as exciting as a bowl of crackers and milk. The author is the Frenchman, Charles Vildrac, over whom the young of the critical species are currently enjoying spasms of enthusiasm, It is the dramatic technic of Vildrac to write on a piece of paper: “Scene: A room with table at stage center,” and then to cause his characters to sit around the should have written. ticularly true of the exhibit in imme- diate point. Devoid of action, of stimulating colloquy and of sharp character drawing, the manuscript literally sleeps its way through the evening. In this, the Vildrac boosters dis- cern what they describe as a charm- ing, wistful simplicity. Vildrac, they proclaim, doesn’t strain for effects: his method is beautifully quiet and suggestive. All of which may be the good gentleman's intention, but it is surely not his achievement. His ity is, on this occasion, at ly emptiness; the quiet- ness of his method is merely somno- lence. Some of his “S.S. Tenacity” is thoroughly engaging, notably the finely written seduction scene of the second act; his attitude toward his themes is that of a civilized French- man as opposed to the more usual local attitude of a civilized lime and cement dealer; but so far as “Michel Auclair” goes there is no more reason for becoming enthusias- tic over his talents than there is f throwing one’s hat into the air over the beauty of a backdrop in a bur- lesque show. 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