Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

. Channel For the obvious purposes of making a play Nieky's iancee finds the lover of Nieky's mother is an old love of her own and there the play begins.
 A Jaxxed Climax
 Moving around in this mueky state of affairs Mir Coward has introdue- ed to the American theatre about the most inconsequential and sorry lot of rotters that the Broadway stage with it's own frequently unenviable record has ever before been permitted to see. The play moves on to the end of the second act, when Nicky's mother finds Nicky's fancee in the arms of Nicky's mothers lover. Then there is the very devil of row and at exactly the right moment. the clever Mir. Coward as Nicky. strides into the room more full of cocaine than ever, smashes his hands on the keyboard of the piano and plavs iazz for all he is worth, making meanwhile the sort of hideous faces which, 1t is said on fairly good authority. users of drugs ire uentlv make in moments when they have had a little more than too much. The curtain falls on the second act
 And now for that splendid third. Naturally Nicky's silly mother IS good deal upset by the amorous turn of affairs in her sort Of English Adirondack house party. She weeps fl out on pink satin pillows to bosom friend Suddenly the door opens and Nickv anpears once more. In a scene at the sight of which Charles F.. RIanev of the dear old "ten-twent' : tbir,i " of delightful memory would have laughed himself sick. they nave a terrible time. Nicky tells his mater nal ancester that she's a bad iot' something that the audience mas tnown for two hours. Finally ne shows her his little gold cocaine ooA' The great moment of the play mas ar rived Not thatl Nicky she eries and throws the little implement oi satan out of the window as NicEy ~ one fell swoop elatters all her makeup hoxes from the dressing table to the floor Thereupon to the amazemeht oi Inc unsuspecting audience Nlcky teiis lie n,o,her that it's all her fault and no, inc fault of that stay m farls. ua ,ook inc drugs because his mother ;n London had gone to the bow-wows though apparently he didn't Fesiy Lrow fl until he came home. The cur ,ain falls as both clutch each other ih extremeiv incoherent and OBVIOUSLY San,n vows of mutual regeneration.
 cpcb gs Mir. Coward's great ana .uasnsrous plav. a silly bit of theatrl- calism involving a group ol e"at sso~ s ters whom no sane theatre g0et' aie'l aIl the shooting is over, VIII care Snap of their fingers to see, me nsn " asradenee. so one critic phraseo ms s,,ron,arv of the shoddy world whieh Mir Coward has depicted, but. to oat wav of thinking, decadenee Tor MT. Covard,s characters is far too cosn,'e n u,ovd These are but silly, sfnei,s -aarle af no importance. and the wofiu ,vn,,ld neither grow better nor wofse V the whole baily crew of them were eb,,cked into a waste paper basket ana
 Re if said that Mir. Coward IS goon ' .c.or and a better player of the la<N,, iTr the latter role he is supefp' anu there are those who have seen ms nIsy wanld have enjoyed half hour pf his nimble fingers at the piano ever yer and ever SO much more than the duh total of his efforts in The Vortex.
 The Dappsr Mir. Arisn
 And ,ow for Mir. Arlen. whose ca. -aer bas been thus and thus:
 Onee upon a time there was clever ..a,,ns man in London whose parents came from that rug.seiling ana hiusi' ,nandated country known as Atiiisilla. ssll.a, When their little lad first saw me ileh. , of day they blessed him with the sef' of name that adorns those shops ~ .a:., As. lastje City and such resorts Nhereii. Ten are Sisplaved the aforesaid rugs aiohe is.,. ais .,s.,s,rat.5 Persian brasses and