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Show "In Love With Love" Is Best of-New Plays Br JAMttS W. DEAN. KKW OKK. Aug. II. la llw waller wal-ler of hot August nights four new plays have come to life on Bro-y to claim Ih. attention of the playboy! mil their typewriter fingers, atrophied rom several montha of Idleness. Of the three seen so far by this reviewer. "In lAt With I.ove" seems In be the only one that will row don through the winter to honor Its playwright and Its players, In l-ov With l.ove " Is by Vlnrent Lawrenee. who also wrote 'Two rel. Iowa and a Ulri." This serond play might well have been called Three fellows and a Jlrl." Kobert Htrange succeeds In getting an engagement tint on the finger of l.ynn Fontanne. Jl.'nry Hull succeeds In letting It off. And Ralph Morgan. In the final scene, accepts hr proposal. pro-posal. Til"'" Is daring In that final scene. JTt:rTrats.nrie" ft urwm' ii" " snd Implores Morgan to msrry her. Ruin sltuatlona have been put upon the s'age before, but the heroine. It eems. must alwaa lose caala by making a auppllcant of heraelf However tne situation In this p'sy la prefaced bv two acts of sheer nonsense. non-sense. One might esprit anything to happen, although one knows from a rertalnty beginning In the. middle 01 the first mil that Morgan will be the Ural hero. . e Every once In a while a reviewer alts up In the middle of a P'. ' lake stork of himself Inalead of the play before him. Several weeks ego It was set down In this column that Two Fellows and a tilrl" was without solid content, that the amply snd that whstever credit the play should receive for Us delightful entertainment must go to George M. Cohan, who slsged It. Vincent f-a-rent e was giwen no credit at all. Sow It so happena that In tove With Love" la cut from the same material ma-terial if not. Indeed, on the same pattern. George M. fohan had nothing noth-ing to i" with. Its staging yet It s iuet as effective a play as "Two Fellows Fel-lows and a Girl " l-rhas ljwrence wrote mors Into this second plsy. n ths other hand, l.jnn Fontanne brings consider-inly more to her role than the leading lady of 'Two Fellows and a Olrl" bruugni to her role. Miss Fontanne. It seems to this writer, would contribute quite a bit to an evening's entertainment If she were to come oil the sum w ithout sets, lines or co-ilayeis. Wllllsm Itrady begins the season-wit season-wit h "The Mad Honeymoon." It Is mad bit of business, being A Jig-saw puztle of odd pieces picked up from several theatrical wrecks. I'rohauly Hrady sought Hie other extremity from The World We Live In." an artistic success and A bog office failure. Itootleggera and murderers hold sway In "Thumbs Down." 11 U Juat that kind of A play. |