New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
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Appeal by MIR. Conan for
Anglo American Love,
Friendship, Forbear-
ance, Sympathy and
Marriage

matters pertaining to the Stars
and Stripes now graciousiy extends
his interest to the Union Jack. In his
rev comedy by Arthur Goodrich, 50
This Is London he entwines the en-
signs in cousinly embrace and shows
as how auspiciously they float when
tossed together in the soft winds of
amity and understanding. Besides the
plays results as a petition for love
between the nations, 1t also is not
without consequence as show. The
snappy Cohan quips are prevalent in it.,
giving jaunty spirit to it's CONVERSE
tons, and the story is pretty we'll told,
though lacking last night in what "The
Torch-Bearers" would call tempo.
This is the authors plan, jazzed a
little by Mr.. Cohan's irrepressible
gifts in slangy repartee: He takes an
American family Of opulent boot
makers, headed by Mr.. Edmund Breese,
and places them in conflict with an
English family Of similar vocation,
headed by Mr.. Laurence D'Orsay. The
Americans name, obviously, is Hiram;
the Englishman's Sir Percy. Hiram is
one Of those aquiline Yanks who pooh
pooh all things British, from the tele-
phones "Are you there?" to top hats
and tea. Sir Percy Is an imbedded,
iaw-haw Briton, who abhors with a
rabid loathing the land Of the free and
the home Of the brave. Hiram is con-
temptuous of England's. repose; Sir
Percy is Disguised with Americas
riot. How wonderfully and wholesome
ly dramatic it is, therefore, to bring
these Earring protagonists together
through Romance--the love of the
daughter.
To accentuate the comedys purpose
trick is employed. Thus, when the
american youth (Mr. Donald Gallaher)
informs his male parent that he is
mad about and intends to marry an
English girl, Hiram storms around in
loud detractions Of the British. "They
are like thisl" he cries, and then the
lights go out, and the scene is changed
10 exhibit Hiram's idea of English peo-
pie, with Mr.. D'Orsay haw-hawing and
eld-topping all over the place. When
Sir Percy's lady offspring tells her
family that a young Yank is in her
bl6od,,pa similar device is used, with
| Mr.. Breese appearing in broad.
brimmed hat--a loud, obscene, tobacco
eating barbarian in store clothes
| whose family chews gum and says
eliot dog!" The scheme, variant oil
the cinema's throw-back, is fairly sue.
cessful, and last night, at the Hudson
| It evoked prolonged expressions Of ad.
/ miration.
| Lady Sybil, titled and handsome
expatriate, hailing from Germantown
| Pa, brings the hostile households to.
| gether in the last act at dinner party
! Sir Percy's daughter charms Hiram by
Ter winning ways, and Hiram's boy
| Junior by name, cndears himself tt
Sir Percy. So fond are they Of one
another at the end that they decide
to unite their rival cobbleries in ;
mandatory that will shoe the world
| Hut not until after the amicabIe rela
tions totter several times on the edg
Of disturbance. Mr.. D'Orsay, for in
stance, asks Jennings, the butler. i
be is related to Hughey Jennings; an,
he says "Hello, Central!' to the tele
phone. Mr.. D'Orsay likewise endan
gers the affiliation with similar hostil
activities. The acting in $50 This l
London" is very good in pleasan
routine way, involving nothing unex
pected.