At the New Theatre And Others the American Stage Its Problems And Performances
At the New Theatre And Others the American Stage Its Problems And Performances
Eaton Walter Prichard
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Mack has to have an operation, an all-day job, which oddly falls on race-days. There is, for in- stance, the Derby operation, and the Sandown. Finally Mrs. Mack gets a little better and is about to be moved to Paris, with the doctor's aid, when Penelope, who has seen through the myth all the while, plays her last card and suc- ceeds in winning back her husband. The other woman, unaware that Penelope even suspects, is beguiled from one fabrication about Mrs. Mack to another by the triumphant and... re- morseless Penelope who, in a comical scene, finally tells her that Mrs. Mack is dead. The other woman, supposing a symbol in this, weeps. Penelope, hiding her mirth, weeps also — crocodile tears, which the other woman fancies are shed seriously for her husband's pa- tient. Here there is double meaning and sug- gestive by-play: a capital scene, and one capi- tally fitted to Miss Tempest. All ends, of course, as it should — in a play. Miss Tempest, indeed, is from curtain to curtain the same bubbling, vital, arch, piquant, 134 AT THE NEW THEATRE and faintly acid comedian of old.
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