The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.