The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.

 

The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
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Review of "The House Beautiful" by Channing Pollock, New Yorker (21 March 1931)

 

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Sort of drifted off. Nobody wears shiny boots like that now.
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