The New York herald., 1922-09-21
Again Small Tom
Virtue Triumphs
in IT'S a Boyr
Sequel to six Cylinder Love-
Brings Laughs at the
Harris.
Ieprialsd tron, gesteraay,s Iate eailt0ns
ny LAWRENCE REAMER.

II seems that William Anthony Nc
Guire is stll preoccupied with the newly
weds. He proved this again at the Harris
Theater last night in IT'S a Boy" The
new comedy In three acts and prologue,
is in the vein OF its immensely success
ful predecessor "Six Cylinder Love"
which took up a year of New York's
spare time. Just as the rapturos OF
matrimony and its pitfalls during its
early years were disclosed IN this play,
so We're they again revealed when the
effects of marriage are somewhat more
deeply marked on its contracting parties.
il was a motor car IL memory serves,
which varied the marital existence OF
the first young couple that Mr.. Mcclure
immortalized In the American theater
Last night ii was a baby.
After subdued prologue. the young
persons were seen IN their happyfhome
at CarbordaIe. Pa. Then the serpent
entered IN the persons Of three wealthy
New Workers. who stopped there on
motoring trip. Thus X the Mammon of
Unrighteousness transported now in the
theater--always in 4 motor Even the
ceremony of baptizing her first child
hung so heavily on the time Of the
young mother that she prefers to chat
with q woman who turns out TO be no
better than she might be. But she IS
from New York.
Act two finds all hands there, Has
not the proprietor Of the store brought
on the local Woolworth at q salary Of
$4,000 year?
As the PIaywrights Sec 1t.
Then follows an act Of life in New
York-apartmen hotel kind as the play
wright sees It. They are indulging ~
this model Of existence very frequently
"a xx,bf 10 NaxU Workers.
win have as much right to protest
against its piaywrights as the French
nation, which does not. after all, pass
its waking hours as boulevard farce has
led the civilized universe 70 believe.
Nor are all New Workers. social gang
men dwelling in gaudy apartment hotels
Is 1t possible the playwrights see no
other kind of life?
Baby still goo-goos in the second act.
out less predominat tingly. Granny nurses
him by means OF the kitchenette, but
he has been heard to say daddy. Ma
ma is more Interested In the diamond
bracelet which the itinerant jeweler
does not want to deliver until she has
paid up some back installments on other
decorations. Thus is the note Of inn
pending peril sounded. Realization
comes when the young husband Is dis
missed after one year Whether he made
good or not, is not a matter OF import
ance. The company wanted the sites OF
his stores in Carbondale and Scranton
Thus came the transfer of the family TO
the metropolis
New York came poorly out or the
comparison with the honest immigrants
from Carbondale. The wife of the cao-
tain OF finance had after all no real
claim to that name She acted, how
ever. as ii she really had title to the
chinchilla coat. 1t was the same old
story. The village street-now Main
streets the path Of virtue. The
city avenues are the primrose paths Of
dallance. But there was home IN view
when the play ended The baby at least
did not have To grow up in New York
apartment hotel even If 1t were equipped
with capacious kitchenette.